<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/1/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jason Woodward</b> <<a href="mailto:woodwardj@jaos.org">woodwardj@jaos.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Hiram,</blockquote><div><br>Hi Jason, <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">--search actually searches the name, version, location, and description of the packages. So
<br>your search term may show up in various places. Since the argument to --search is a regular<br>expression, you can be explicit in what you want matched. For example, to search for any<br>packages beginning with alsa, use the caret (^) modifier to specify beginning of string.
<br>--search ^alsa will give you the finer grained results you are looking for.</blockquote><div><br>I see, I 've tried using wildcards to refine the output, but it seems that slapt-get<br>doesn't respond to *, for example trying --search alsa* outputs many many
<br>other packages apart those that are alsa related. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">HTH,<br>
jason</blockquote><div><br>it does.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Hiram. <br></div></div><br>--<br><a href="http://www.egoboobits.net/HiramAbiff">http://www.egoboobits.net/HiramAbiff</a><br>