"linux china" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't mean adjusting the columns. you can see the package name is > cut, the words after libhtml-tree-p is missing, so I just want to > output the name & description which are needed, other information like > version isn't needed, so how to just output the package name & > description?
Did you actually try the COLUMNS= suggestion? It seems to adjust the widths of each column as well. If you want to get rid of the version information you will need to use something like sed. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]