Searching for DEB's

[^chewie <chewie@wookimus.net>]

Try this little bash script:

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#!/bin/bash
# Script: search-debs
# Syntax: search-debs <grep matching string>

echo "Packages containing the string: ${1}"
apt-cache dump | grep "^Package" | grep ${1} | awk '{print $2}'
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The command 'dpkg -l | grep <whatever>' will do some crude matching as well,
but it won't give you the full package name.  'dpkg -l' does contain some
description information that is nice to have.

Doing a search on a package description can be done by editing the
/var/lib/dpkg/available file.  JUST DON'T DELETE THE FILE. ;-)  Could be bad.

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^chewie

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