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 > cut off. > > > 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) > ||/ Name Version Description > +++-====================================-====================================-======================================================================================== > 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 at rho1:cgi-bin# dpkg --list 'communicator*' > dpkg.lst > root at 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) > > > > -- > John Hawley > BGEA/ITS > Network Engineer > 612.335.1334 > jhawley at bgea.org -- Clay Fandre email: clay at fandre.com PGP Key ID: 0x50DBBB60 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list