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| -rw-r--r-- | man/emerge.1 | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | pym/emergehelp.py | 12 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/man/emerge.1 b/man/emerge.1 index 7773fdffa..f27e6c0a2 100644 --- a/man/emerge.1 +++ b/man/emerge.1 @@ -152,14 +152,15 @@ to do, then portage will exit with a message and a success condition. .TP .BR "\-\-search " (\fB\-s\fR) Searches for matches of the supplied string in the portage tree. -The \-\-search string is a regular expression. For example, \fBemerge -\-\-search "^kde"\fR searches for any package whose name starts with "kde"; -\fBemerge \-\-search "gcc$"\fR searches for any package that ends with -"gcc"; \fBemerge \-\-search "office"\fR searches for any package that -contains the word "office". If you want to include the category into the -search string, prepend an @: \fBemerge --search "@^dev-java.*jdk"\fR. -If you want to search the package descriptions as well, use the -\fB\-\-searchdesc\fR action. +By default emerge uses a case-insensitive simple search, but you can +enable a regular expression search by prefixing the search string with %. +For example, \fBemerge \-\-search "%^kde"\fR searches for any package whose +name starts with "kde"; \fBemerge \-\-search "%gcc$"\fR searches for any +package that ends with "gcc"; \fBemerge \-\-search "office"\fR searches for +any package that contains the word "office". If you want to include the +category into the search string, prepend an @: \fBemerge --search +"%@^dev-java.*jdk"\fR. If you want to search the package descriptions as well, +use the \fB\-\-searchdesc\fR action. .TP .BR "\-\-searchdesc " (\fB\-S\fR) Matches the search string against the description field as well as diff --git a/pym/emergehelp.py b/pym/emergehelp.py index ff6c4e6c8..9b1c9032a 100644 --- a/pym/emergehelp.py +++ b/pym/emergehelp.py @@ -107,15 +107,19 @@ def help(myaction,myopts,havecolor=1): print print " "+green("--search")+" ("+green("-s")+" short option)" print " Searches for matches of the supplied string in the current local" - print " portage tree. The search string is a regular expression." + print " portage tree. By default emerge uses a case-insensitive simple " + print " search, but you can enable a regular expression search by " + print " prefixing the search string with %%." print " Prepending the expression with a '@' will cause the category to" print " be included in the search." print " A few examples:" - print " "+bold("emerge search '^kde'") + print " "+bold("emerge --search libc") + print " list all packages that contain libc in their name" + print " "+bold("emerge --search '%^kde'") print " list all packages starting with kde" - print " "+bold("emerge search 'gcc$'") + print " "+bold("emerge --search '%gcc$'") print " list all packages ending with gcc" - print " "+bold("emerge search @^dev-java.*jdk") + print " "+bold("emerge --search '%@^dev-java.*jdk'") print " list all available Java JDKs" print print " "+green("--searchdesc")+" ("+green("-S")+" short option)" |