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.
grep-available -r -F Package '^prefix' The -r tells it to accept regular expressions, and "-F Package" to look in the Package field. '^prefix' is of course the prefix you want to search for, preceded by a caret. grep-available is in the grep-dctrl package. There is also "apt-cache search", which is generally easier to use, although it's harder (maybe impossible?) to fine-tune exactly how it will search. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
