On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 7:57 PM, giovanni_re <john...@fastmail.us> wrote: > Is there a way to mashup "apt-cache search <SearchTerm>" & "dpkg -l" > - so that given a SearchTerm, > it would find all the related package names in the cache, > then do a "dpkg -l" on those package names?
No need for dpkg. aptitude -F "%c%a %p %v %d" search '?narrow(?installed,searchterm)' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikqfx5zwcqjgrucbrodkwc45coj-tk8278ru...@mail.gmail.com