yum list display some package in 2 rows

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On 01/31/2009 12:47 PM, Ambrogio wrote:
> Il giorno sab, 31/01/2009 alle 14.03 +0000, g ha scritto:
>
>> this is true. he did not say where he is running script. virtual vs xterm.
> Well,
> I'm doing some tests and the output is very strange for me...
>
> On the same terminal (kterminal) in a very big window, if I run yum list
> available I obtain a list in which every line end to the right border.
>
> If, in the same terminal, I use yum list available | less or even |
> more, I obtain a very short line.
>
> This is an output example.
>
> yum list available | more
> BasiliskII.i386                     1.0-0.20060501.3.fc9
>                                                         rpmfusion-free-updates
>
> yum list available basilisk\*
>
> Pacchetti disponibili
> BasiliskII.i386                                                                      1.0-0.20060501.3.fc9                                                                      rpmfusion-free-updates
>
> but,
> if I run the command
>    yum list available basilisk\* | more I obtain
>
> Pacchetti disponibili
> BasiliskII.i386           1.0-0.20060501.3.fc9            rpmfusion-free-updates
>
> that is what I expect.

I did the same experiment with the same result. What I don't understand 
is why this is a problem. If you're piping the output of "yum list" to 
something else for further processing, you're getting one line of 
output, which is what you want.

poc