Hopefully this gets improved properly, but in the meantime here's an
alias that offers better convenience than 'apt search' for package name
search:
alias apts="apt list 2> /dev/null | sed 's/\// \//' | grep "
And a bulky, quick and dirty bash function for full description search:
aptse() { # temporary 'apt search' improvement
tput rmam; # no-wrap
apt search $1 2>/dev/null | # skip the interface warning
tail -n+3 | # skip unimportant sorting info
grep -v '^$' | # delete empty lines
sed 'N;s/\n//' | # append every second line
sed 's/\// \//' | # replace first '/' with space
awk '{$2="";$4="";print}' | # remove useless info
sed -r 's/(\[.*)installed(.*\])/\1i\2/' | # shorten
sed -r 's/(\[.*)automatic(.*\])/\1a\2/' | # shorten
sed -r 's/(\[.*),(.*\])/\1\2/' | # prettier shortened '[]'
egrep --color "$1|" # highlighting
tput smam; # wrap again
}
Since the search expression is always a pattern with grep, neither
suffers from the 'apt list' behaviour described in my previous comment
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1639815/comments/1).
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