RE: 'apt-cache search' question

["Joyce, Matthew" <MJoyce@ccia.org.au>]

> 
> > From the man page.
> > "Seperate arguments can be used to specified multi­ple 
> search patterns 
> > that are and'd together."
> > 
> > 'apt-cache search server' and 'apt-cache search server ftp' produce 
> > quite different amounts of hits, the space does not 'stop' it.
> 
> OK, I may not have it right either.
> 
> When I try to use more than one argument I either get <not 
> what I want> or an error message that I must specify only one 
> thing to search.
> 

Well, something seems wrong to me, perhaps my understanding of what the
description is.

I am surprised that

'apt-cache search gimp GIF' produces nothing.

while

'apt-cache search gif | grep gimp' produces "gimp1.2-nonfree - GIF support
for the GNU Image Manipulation Program"





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