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". 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. :) Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
