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Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 05:13:47PM -0800, Kevin A. Burton wrote:
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> > Hey.
> > 
> > After getting sick of having to have a browser around to hit
> > packages.debian.org, I wrote a python script that handle it for me.
> > 
> > This way you can do an 'apt-search bash' and see what packages are 
> > available.
> 
> If you run apt-get update, 
> 
> apt-cache search bash

Hm... I didn't think to look there.  Interesting.

> is rather more powerful, since it searches the contents of the description
> field.

So does apt-search

apt-search --searchon=description bash

Kevin

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