On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 15:09, Marcel Fehr wrote: > hi there > > How do I search for a explicied pattern within all my installed packages? > > for e.g if I want to look which package owns the command cu, a "dpkg -S cu" > will list all package where's a pattern starting with cu (cups, custom, ... > same > as I would do "dpkg -S cu*"). Is there a way to limit that?
It seems you need at least one asterisk at the beginning or the end of your pattern, else an asterisk is appended *and* prepended to your pattern. You get better results whith 'dpkg -S \*cu' for example because this just matches at the end of a file name. > And is it possible to shapen the scope so that it looks > into all available packages on the installation medium rather > into the installed ones only? Would avoid to check > http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_contents all the times :). Just install apt-file. Then just run 'apt-file search cu' (make sure you ran 'apt-file update' at least once before). You may also want to check out grep-dctrl which should do something like that also, but I haven't used it so far. -- Claudio Bley ASCII ribbon campaign (") Debian GNU/Linux advocate - against HTML email X http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~bley/ & vCards / \ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
