On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 12:49:21PM -0400, Lee wrote: > On 5/24/20, Leszek Dubiel <leszek.dub...@dubielvitrum.pl> wrote: > > I've completely switched to using "apt" for all debian package management. > > I'm fine with the "apt" tool, it fits all my needs except one... serarching.
It's no problem to use "apt-cache search" if you prefer that. apt-cache and friends aren't going away and if they do what you like, use them! I don't know where this notion that they shouldn't be used anymore is coming from. If only people would do that with tools which really are not to be used (looking at you apt-key…). The same people are maintaining them all and so if you peak under the lid you would notice that it tends to be even the very same code just with an option here or there flipping a default… so, without promising any backward compatibility: $ apt search perl -o APT::Cache::Search::Version=1 If you want to set this in a config file use: Binary::apt::APT::Cache::Search::Version "1"; As said, no promise that this will work forever. The various things Julian hints at might be better choices in the future. > $ apt search perl | awk -v RS="" '{gsub("\n",""); print $0}' | grep JSON | > grep -i data awk is certainly powerful, but at least I can never type out such commands without a least one trip to the manpage, websearch or frantically grepping in my shell history files… So I tend to prefer combinations of far less powerful tools. I like `cut` and it has an even less known sibling with `paste`: apt search -qq perl | paste -d' ' - - - | … `-qq` disables the progress reporting in apt which is two lines which would confuse the rest. `paste` takes three lines from stdin (`-`) and separates them each with a space (`-d' '`). One day I will learn awk – if cut and paste fail me 😉 Best regards David Kalnischkies
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