Package: dlocate
Version: 0.5-0.3
Followup-For: Bug #208425
A test:
% echo bsdutils | egrep '*sdl*' ; echo $?
bsdutils
0
% echo bsdutils | grep '*sdl*' ; echo $?
1
I suggest adding another option to do the same thing with 'grep' --
coding it is very easy, just copy, (or make a function of), the present
'-l' routine, and call 'grep' instead of 'egrep'. Maybe name the
new option '-w' for wildcard.
Also, the current man page should be tweaked:
% man dlocate | grep -m 1 -nA 7 'simplistic'
26: -l simplistic emulation of `dpkg -l'. Shows all packages
which
27- match package. Internally this uses egrep on a file
containing
28- the reformatted output of `dpkg -l' (four fields separated
by
29- one space-character: status, package-name, installed
version,
30- description) so it will return packages whose tag-line
matches,
31- too. Extended regular expression are allowed. For example,
dlo-
32- cate -l '^.. libc5' will list all the package names
starting
33- with `libc5'.)
...it would be better if this description noted the regexp/wildcard
difference between 'dlocate -l' and 'dpkg -l'. e.g.:
-l simplistic emulation of `dpkg -l', but with regular
expressions instead of wildcards. ...etc...
Hope this helps...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Versions of packages dlocate depends on:
ii dctrl-tools 2.9.0 Command-line tools to process Debi
ii dpkg 1.13.22 package maintenance system for Deb
ii grep-dctrl 2.9.0 Grep Debian package information -
ii perl 5.8.8-6.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
dlocate recommends no packages.
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