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Say, a silly little question to the Debian gurus.<BR>
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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 cut off.<BR>
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<PRE>root@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)
||/ Name Version Description
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ii communicator 4.77-2 Meta package that depends on other packages
ii communicator-base-477 4.77-2 Communicator base support for version 4.77
un communicator-browser-477 <none> (no description available)
un communicator-nethelp-477 <none> (no description available)
ii communicator-smotif-477 4.77-2 Netscape Communicator 4.77 (static Motif)
un communicator-spellchk-477 <none> (no description available)
root@rho1:cgi-bin# dpkg --list 'communicator*' > dpkg.lst
root@rho1:cgi-bin# cat dpkg.lst
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)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii communicator 4.77-2 Meta package that depends on other packages
ii communicator-b 4.77-2 Communicator base support for version 4.77
un communicator-b <none> (no description available)
un communicator-n <none> (no description available)
ii communicator-s 4.77-2 Netscape Communicator 4.77 (static Motif)
un communicator-s <none> (no description available)
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<PRE>--
John Hawley
BGEA/ITS
Network Engineer
612.335.1334
jhawley@bgea.org</PRE>
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