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Re: Bug#178993: apt: "apt-cache search -something" doesn't work



On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Michal Cihar wrote:

> Searching for anything that begins with - fails, as it is treated like
> parameter. From man page it seems that it should work (search  regex),
> but it doesn't...

POSIX requires you use '--' before using any non-option arguments that
start with -

Jason



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