On May 17, 2005, at 6:57 PM, Paul Nicholas McCubbins wrote:
http://packages.debian.org allows searching for packages, or files.
Thanks, Paul. That's exactly what I was looking for[1,2]. The search URL looks fairly straight forward. Should be easy enough to turn that into a CLI tool. Or does one already exist?
Here's a quick-and-dirty bash function that does the trick:
apt-get.pkg.search ()
{
[ -z "$1" ] && {
echo "Usage: apt-get.search.file file_in_package";
return
};
lynx --dump --width=100 \
'http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word='\
$1'&searchmode=searchfiles&case=insensitive&version=stable&arch=i386'
}[1] http://tinyurl.com/aqskk
[2] http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=xml2- config&searchmode=searchfiles&case=insensitive&version=stable&arch=i386
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