esearch
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esearch
Section: User Commands (1)Updated: February 13, 2005
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NAME
esearch - replacement for 'emerge search' with search-indexSYNOPSIS
esearch [ options ] <pattern>DESCRIPTION
esearch is a small script which behaves exactly like emerge -s resp. emerge -S. The advantage of esearch over emerge is the search index it uses. It is a lot faster than emerge -s/-S.OPTIONS
- --help, -h
- Print help message
- --searchdesc, -S
- Search package descriptions as well
- --fullname, -F
- Search packages full name (includes category)
- --instonly, -I
- Find only packages which are installed
- --compact, -c
- More compact output format
- --verbose, -v
- Give a lot of additional information (slow!)
- --ebuild, -e
- View ebuilds of found packages
- --own=format, -o format
- Use user-defined output format, format is a string which may contain special characters, see FORMAT section for details
- --directory=dir, -d dir
- Use dir to store esearch index
- --nocolor, -n
-
Don't use ANSI codes for colored output
FORMAT
- %c
- category
- %n
- package name
- %p
- same as "%c/%n"
- %m
- "masked" if package is masked, otherwise ""
- %va
- latest version available
- %vi
- latest version installed, or ""
- %s
- size of downloaded files
- %h
- Homepage
- %d
- Description
- %l
-
License
EXAMPLES
- esearch -o "/usr/portage/%p/ChangeLog
" ^package$ - Print the correct path to the ChangeLog file of 'package'.
- esearch -o "%n-%va.ebuild
" pattern - Print the names of the current ebuild files.
- esearch -o "%p
" ^ > package-list -
Generate a list of all available packages.
SEE ALSO
eupdatedb(1), esync(1), emerge(1)BUGS
No known bugsAUTHOR
David Peter <davidpeter@web.de>
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