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Package: apt
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Searching for anything that begins with - fails, as it is treated like
parameter. From man page it seems that it should work (search regex),
but it doesn't...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
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Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.1-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-15 The GNU stdc++ library
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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 19:42:39 -0700 (MST)
From: Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bug#178993: apt: "apt-cache search -something" doesn't work
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On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Michal Cihar wrote:
> Searching for anything that begins with - fails, as it is treated like
> parameter. From man page it seems that it should work (search regex),
> but it doesn't...
POSIX requires you use '--' before using any non-option arguments that
start with -
Jason
