Re: yum list available weird output

On Tue, 5 May 2009, Les Mikesell wrote:

> Seth Vidal wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> did you see what I just said?
>> 
>> yum is NOT intended to be screen scraped. Either write a python script or 
>> use repoquery.
>
> What kind of unix tool philosopy is that?
>

It's not. Nor is it intended to be.

You want a unix tool philosophy look at repoquery.

yum is not that.

-sv