prevent winget output from being truncated, which removes useful information (e.g. winget --info)

[mattmazzola]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Certain winget commands output text that is truncated. Alarmingly, this even occurs when output is redirected, such as to a file, which doesn't have a character width display constraint and there is not a reason to truncate.

Example

winget --info | Select-String -Pattern "%LOCALAPPDATA%\\Packages\\Microsoft\.DesktopAppInstaller_[\w]*\\LocalState\\s.*" | ForEach-Object { $_.Matches.Value }

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\sett…

Notice what I think is garbled Unicode … at the end, implying it seems truncated at the byte level and not clean character limit.

As #4521 mentions, because the output is not structured, it already requires hacks to get the desired value from it (see here I am using regex) and even more the value isn't complete which requires more hacks on assumptions based on knowing the full file name is settings.json

Expectation

The output of the above command should the expanded full path

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\settings.json

Related Issues

4521

4508

Proposed technical implementation details

It's not clear how the current output is produced but change that not to truncate.

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[stephengillie]

Hi @mattmazzola,

Please consider using the PowerShell cmdlets, including Get-WinGetSettings, which return PSObjects. For the query above, (Get-WinGetSettings).usersettingsfile might return the same data.

[mdanish-kh]

@mattmazzola Is this the same request as https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/1653? If so, can we close this issue as duplicate and move the discussion there for better tracking?

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[mattmazzola]

Yes, I think this is the same request

I think this issue gives better description of the problem, but I see the other issue has more activity.

I think it can be closed if you think appropriate

[mdanish-kh]

Thank you, please consider adding a comment if you can expand on the issue and giving it a 👍 to raise its priority. I'll close this one out.

Duplicate of #1653

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