Re: yum list available weird output

Seth Vidal wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 5 May 2009, James Antill wrote:
>
>> Gerry Reno <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> I run this command:
>>> yum -q list available $(rpm -qa --queryformat=%{name}\n) | grep "^ "
>>> 1.0.0-2.fc11
>>> preupgrade
>>> 0.1.0-6.fc11
>>> preupgrade
>>
>> Pipe the "yum list available" output through less, and you'll see
>> what is happening. In general we don't recommend screen scrapping yum
>> output, writing a yum script is often significantly easier (and
>> supported).
>>
>> For what I _think_ you are trying to do above, you probably just want
>> "yum list updates" or "yum check-update" output.
>
> and if you feel you MUST use a script to do this: look at repoquery 
> from yum-utils.
>
> -sv
Ok, through 'less' I can see that the output is being forced onto a 
second line. But rather than do that, it would be better to just push 
the output out by $COLUMNS and it would look exactly the same but still 
be on the same line.

Regards,
Gerry