John Madden wrote:
> Same version here (1.13.10), and dpkg -l > file works fine. However, it
> still truncates to stdout, which is annoying. So, the COLUMNS= hack is
> still needed for stdout (AFAICS).
Interesting. That said, it usually catches me out when i'm doing
something like 'dpkg -l | grep blah | less', etc, in which case the
above change still works, so i'm pretty happy. 'dpkg -l | less' achieves
the same thing if you just want to view the entire list.
Steve
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