Re: Yum output and term size

On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 12:55 +0100, pirla wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a little question that I would like to understand.
> 
> How yum chose the row size for the output of the command.
> 
> I see that if I send output to a file or to a pipe, the size is set to
> 80 char, even if the terminal has more columns.
> This is a problem when package names are long because the row is divided
> into 2 rows, so script or parsing is very hard.

1. what version of yum is this?
2. screen-scraping the output to parse is never going to be reliable.

What is it you're trying to do?

-sv