On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 22:04:40 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 02:20:21 +0000 (UTC) > Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > the gimp. Using 'apt-cache search gimp gif' did not return the >> > correct answer. The man page for apt-cache says: >> > >> > search search performs a full text search on all available >> > package >> > files for the regex pattern given. It searchs the package >> > names and the descriptions for an occurance of the string >> > and > > I'm pretty sure it already does what the man page says it does. When I > use apt-cache search sometimes I get a whole lot of stuff that isn't > what I'm looking for, because of the package description search. > > I think the problem is that in the command line > apt-cache search gimp gif > > the phrase "gimp gif" is not a regular expression. What happened here is > that apt-cache searched for the pattern "gimp" and stopped after it saw > the space. It didn't even see "gif". Hmm. Interesting theory. This is not what apt-cache search actually does, though. This is also not what the man page says it does. > Regular expressions is a highly detailed technical topic, which I > couldn't begin to describe in a mail message. If you can find the > O'Reilly book "Mastering Regular Expressions" you'll find it to be > excellent. I don't know any others, but that doesn't mean they don't > exist. > > Don't embarrass yourselves by filing a bug on this. :) I'm happy to embarrass myself. :-) So, is anyone going to file a bug, or shall I? Faheem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]