Re: Searching for apps in cygwin by keyword

2007-11-03 Thread Hussein Patwa
HI, and thanks. That works a charm. Hopefully this will also be of help in the future to others. Have a great weekend. H. On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 10:08:46 -0500, "DePriest, Jason R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Nov 3, 2007 2:06 AM, Thorsten Kampe <> wrote: > > * Hussein Patwa (Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21

Re: Searching for apps in cygwin by keyword

2007-11-03 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Nov 3, 2007 2:06 AM, Thorsten Kampe <> wrote: > * Hussein Patwa (Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:59:14 +) > > Of course there are lots of apps included in the cygwin distribution. My > > question is, how does one search to find what apps are installed that > > fulfill a certain purpose? > > apropos > >

Re: Searching for apps in cygwin by keyword

2007-11-03 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Hussein Patwa (Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:59:14 +) > Of course there are lots of apps included in the cygwin distribution. My > question is, how does one search to find what apps are installed that > fulfill a certain purpose? apropos -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-si

Re: Searching for apps in cygwin by keyword

2007-11-03 Thread Hussein Patwa
Hi and thanks for getting back to me. I guess each of these options have a balance between ease of use and the detail returned. However, it may well be worth suggesting a system such as the one I described being implemented in a future cygwin update. So the description metadata from setup.ini is

Re: Searching for apps in cygwin by keyword

2007-11-02 Thread Brian Dessent
Hussein Patwa wrote: > Of course there are lots of apps included in the cygwin distribution. My > question is, how does one search to find what apps are installed that > fulfill a certain purpose? For example, I want to see how many apps have Several ideas: 1. Run "cygcheck -p keyword" which wil

Searching for apps in cygwin by keyword

2007-11-02 Thread Hussein Patwa
Hello, Firstly apologies if this has been asked before, I did search the archive, Google and various tutorials but did not find a clear answer. Of course there are lots of apps included in the cygwin distribution. My question is, how does one search to find what apps are installed that fulfill a