Re: mashup "apt-cache search <SearchTerm>" & "dpkg -l" - HowTo? ; jor

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Subject: Re: mashup "apt-cache search <SearchTerm>" & "dpkg -l" - HowTo? ; jor
From: Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 04:39:41 -0400
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On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 7:57 PM, giovanni_re <john_re@fastmail.us> wrote:
> Is there a way to mashup "apt-cache search <SearchTerm>" & "dpkg -l"
> - so that given a SearchTerm,
> it would find all the related package names in the cache,
> then do a "dpkg -l" on those package names?

No need for dpkg.

aptitude -F "%c%a %p %v %d" search '?narrow(?installed,searchterm)'

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