On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jo, 13 sep 12, 06:05:51, Tom H wrote: >> >> [root:~]# aptitude search '?virtual' | grep awk >> v awk - >> v awk:i386 - >> [root:~]# aptitude search '?installed' | grep awk >> i A gawk - GNU awk, a pattern scanning and >> processing >> i mawk - a pattern scanning and text processing >> lan >> [root:~]# > > Why grep (and root)? > > $ aptitude search '?installed(awk)' > i A gawk - GNU awk, a pattern scanning and > processing > i A mawk - a pattern scanning and text processing > lan
root because I happened to be logged in as root; sorry. grep because I don't think that the search would work for other virtual packages that don't share 3 of 4 letters with the real packages that provide it. Do they? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=SwEjeAbCa1QWBsnUQD=51wyxkrev7gqdwa_hkjnuuv...@mail.gmail.com
