On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:09:59 -0800 "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> on Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:58:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Friday 11 January 2002 05:58 pm, Stephen Rueger wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 05:41:18PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > [snip] > > > > A problem with this is that even if COLUMNS is a huge value (from > > > > a very large xterm window, for example), 'dpkg -l > foo' will > > > > still create a 78 column output. > > > > > > 'COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l > foo' > > > > radical. thanks. > > > > Doing that without a semicolon would *never* have occurred to me. > > It's a shell trick. > > You can set an environment variable for the _current process_ by > specifying it first on the command line. I usually exploit it to get a > date/time for some other location, e.g.: > > $ TZ=Australia/Sydney date > $ TZ=UK/London date This doesn't work on my system: TZ=Australia/Sydney date TZ=Australia/Sydney: Command not found.
