On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:26:01AM -0400, Tony Uceda Velez wrote: > Anyone know what is comparable to Gentoo's 'emerge search' in apt-get? Man > pages didn't reflect something similar? Want to search for list of packages > that start with a certain string. > > Thanks.
~ %% apt-cache search foobar man2html - Turns a web-browser and an httpd-server into a man pager. ~ %% apt-cache show man2html Package: man2html ... Description: Turns a web-browser and an httpd-server into a man pager. Point your webbrowser at http://your.site/cgi-bin/man2html and you got your manpages in the browser. . Features: * Fast C CGI program for man/BSD-mandoc to HTML conversion. * Works from the unformatted nroff/troff source. * Source may be compressed. * Does tbl tables (but not eqn equations). * Generates hypertext links to foobar(1), [EMAIL PROTECTED], and xyzzy.h files * CGI script for whatis-based alpha-indexes by section. * CGI script for name-only alpha-indexes by section. * CGI script for full text search (requires glimpse) * Front-end script to talk to a pre-launched netscape. ~ %% Probably not exactly what you want, but can be combined with grep(1). "apt-cache search prefix | grep '^prefix'" is much faster than "dpkg -l prefix*", atleast on my system. -- The world's most effective spam filter: ln -sf /dev/full /var/mail/$USER -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
