On Monday 12 October 2009 11:11:06 Peter Humphrey wrote: > 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)
There's always someone willing to go look and find the exceptions :-) So your box just happens to have *two* files named "q" "-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
