On Sat 16 Nov 2024 at 19:15:10 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 11:52:37AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > [...] > > > Be aware that apt-file searches for filenames in packages, > > rather than package names and their descriptions. > > > > (And that's filenames, not pathnames.) > > Hm. I don't know what you mean by this, but I propose, as an > experiment, that you compare the output of > > apt-file search ls > > and > > apt-file search /bin/ls > > ... my take is that it searches for matches whithin the full path.
Sorry, I meant to write directories. Cheers, David.
