Hussein Patwa wrote: > Of course there are lots of apps included in the cygwin distribution. My > question is, how does one search to find what apps are installed that > fulfill a certain purpose? For example, I want to see how many apps have
Several ideas: 1. Run "cygcheck -p keyword" which will match 'keyword' as a regexp against the name, description, and list of filenames contained with each package. However, since the result only contains the name and description of the package it may be a bit confusing if the match happened to be against a coincidently named filename. 2. Go to <http://cygwin.com/packages/> and use your browser's ctrl-F search. 3. View the setup.ini file directly, e.g. "wget -q -O - http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/cygwin/setup.bz2 | bzip2 -cd | less". This is the only way to view the ldesc field, as it is not currently used by anything. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
