On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 01:10:27PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 16 Nov 2024 at 19:15:10 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 11:52:37AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Be aware that apt-file searches for filenames in packages, > > > rather than package names and their descriptions. > > > > > > (And that's filenames, not pathnames.) > > > > Hm. I don't know what you mean by this, but I propose, as an > > experiment, that you compare the output of > > > > apt-file search ls > > > > and > > > > apt-file search /bin/ls > > > > ... my take is that it searches for matches whithin the full path. > > Sorry, I meant to write directories.
Oh, now that you say that, I realize that your statement can be read in (at least) two ways and I used the wrong one, sorry :) Still: trying for "apt-file search /usr/bin" shows that it tries to match the search to the path too -- it isn't "anchored" at its last element (i.e. the "file name"). I learnt something new, thank you :) Cheers -- t
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