[ILUG] Zip

[John O Sullivan]

apt-cache search foo searches the names, short descriptions and long
descriptions of the packages. This can return an awful lot of hits if
foo is a common word and zip is fairly common.
apt-cache search --names-only foo only checks the package names which
gives a more concise set of packages to look at.

johno

On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 06:49:55 Tiarnan O Corrain wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 03:42:14AM +0000, John O Sullivan wrote:
>       _sometimes_ its better to use apt-cache search --names-only
> foo
> 
> Does that search beyond /var/cache/apt/archives...?
> 

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