On Wednesday 15 November 2000 21:16, John Carline wrote: > Ahh! I see. You're probably right, but that's caused by the dpkg command > isn't it - not the pipe? Didn't 'dpkg - l' by itself produce what was > wanted? > > If the full version is what's needed, it's listed in /var/lib/dpkg/status. > The dpkg command cuts it off at 14 characters so the real question may be > "is there a way to make dpkg produce the entire version field?" > > I don't think so, but I could easily be wrong. > > John > > -- > > Powered by the Penguin In another branch of this thread, Colin Watson pointed out that dpkg seems to know if its output is going to screen (like a wide xterm) or to a pipe, and if it is going through a pipe, it defaults to an arbitrary width (which makes sense, the pipe is as "wide" as it needs to be).
He also pointed out grep-dpkg and friends, which are what I intend to use. -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.
