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,