At 2:58 pm, Saturday, June 1 2002, ramon buckland mumbled:
> I thinking of maybe a search/query tool in maybe console and or X
> format.
>
> I Often have found myself looking for the package NAME of the software
> I know.
>
apt-cache search .\*
The reason it looks like that is that apt-cache supports regex, and I'm
escaping the * from the shell. You'll probably want to pipe that through
less as well. :-)
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Steve
* joeyh takes advantage of netscape's marvelous ability to crash to close
10 windows with a single keypress
<joeyh> now that's progress!
<Knghtbrd> Bus error =>
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