On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Arthur Marsh <arthur.ma...@internode.on.net> wrote: > Hi, I was wanting to install midnight commander and realised that the search > function in aptitude wasn't helping me much as the string "mc" appears in > lots of package names. (I used apt-get to install mc). > > How does one get some text in the search box in aptitude to match the start > of line or end of line of the package name, or alternatively, search by > description?
The search in aptitude is a regular expression with some extensions, use ^ to match beginning and $ to match end. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
