[Yum] yum list available weird output

[Les Mikesell]

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?

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