On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 10:52:31PM +0000, David Coe wrote: > Germano Leichsenring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > By the way, am I the only one grepping the "available" file?? > > No, and (for those of you who don't already know), there are > two nice packages that make doing so even easier and more useful: > > *grep-dctrl* allows you to extract entire package chunks with a > grep-like syntax. > > *sgrep* allows you to do arbitrarily complicated extracts (also > from other "structured" text files).
I also find apt 0.3.11's "apt-cache search" to be quite useful (and fast). Adam -- a jolly daemon kin
