On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 19:47 -0800, Earl wrote: >Any way I can get the "full" output from say a yum >list avaialble? > >Normally, when you get to a rediculously long package >name, you get this: > >video4linux-kmdl-2.6.10-1.760_FC3smp.i68 >1:20050113_172233-54.1 at-stable >video4linux-kmdl-2.6.10-1.760_FC3smp.i58 >1:20050113_172233-54.1 at-stable > >For those in a lame-*ss yahoo limited size window, the >package name gets chopped at colunm 40 (I believe). >Not a biggy most times but I want to do some "foo" >with the output and need the full package name. > >Any ideas? > >Looked for the python code that handles this part of >the output but didnt have any luck... > yum's output is not written to be screen scraped for script use. If you want to do that you can easily provide your own mechanism for getting to that data w/some python scripting. look in /usr/share/yum-cli/output.py -sv