[pacman-dev] -Qi output corrupted when using screen

Roman Kyrylych roman.kyrylych at gmail.com
Sat Feb 27 12:14:03 EST 2010


On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 18:42, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> Define usable. Nothing you posted showed any sort of corruption
> whatsoever, it just linebreaked where you didn't expect.
We have a different understanding of "usable" in this case. :-)
Perhaps it would be more correct to say "easily readable".

> If you are using a crappy terminal that doesn't support queries for size, then
> use this as a workaround:
> pacman -Qi glibc | cat

Thanks, this does the trick.
It wraps the output of -Qi on 80th column which is fine.

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)


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