Or
export COLUMNS=200; dpkg --list 'communicator*'

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Clay Fandre wrote:

> Google is your friend.
> http://panuganty.tripod.com/debiantips/packaging.htm
> 
> More specifically,
> apt-get install dpkg-awk
> dpkg-awk "Status: .* installed$" -- Package | cut -d: -f2
> 
> 
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, John Hawley wrote:
> 
> > Say, a silly little question to the Debian gurus.
> > 
> > Anyone know why my dpkg listing fields get truncated when I direct the
> > output to a file?  This is from xterm running in a bash shell.  I'd like
> > to be able to have a copy of the current package listing for all my
> > servers and its irritating to see the package names or version number
> > 
> > root at rho1:cgi-bin# dpkg --list 'communicator*
> > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)

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