On Sunday 11 October 2009 22:23:11 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I knew how to do it but I thought it would return a lot of hits from > > anything containing the letter "q". Later on when I had a little bit of > > time to sit here, I tried it. It only returned the one result. Still > > sort of surprised about that. I actually just ran equery b q . Neato > > ! It has a microscope and read my mind. o_O > > which doesn't accept regular expressions or wild-cards, it wants a literal > value. The man page says it will return the path used if the exact argument > is entered on the command line. So you can only get one answer
Interesting. I tried it just out of interest and I got two: $ equery b q [ Searching for file(s) q in *... ] app-portage/portage-utils-0.1.29 (/usr/bin/q) sys-libs/ncurses-5.6-r2 (/usr/share/terminfo/q) $ -- Rgds Peter
