yum list display some package in 2 rows

[Allen Kistler]

Ambrogio <fn050202 interfree it> wrote:
> I use yum list in a script to have everytime I need a list of package
> available.
> 
> Some packages, that have long names, are displayed in 2 rows, so scripts
> are more hard to be coded.
> 
> There is an option to have a more simple list of packages, less readable
> by umans, but more readable by computer?

I also have "yum list available" in a script.  All the regular lines 
begin with non-whitespace and all "additional" lines begin with 
whitespace, so I pipe it through the following:

tr "\n" "#" | sed -e 's/# / /g' | tr "#" "\n"

Turn newlines into octothorpes; replace octothorpe+space with space 
globally (i.e., delete the octothorpe if it's followed by a space); 
replace octothorpes with newlines.  It's predicated on the assumption 
that there would never be an octothorpe in a yum listing.  If there ever 
is, then I'd have to pick another character.

It's a hack, but it works (so far).