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Re: Searching for apps in cygwin by keyword
Hussein Patwa wrote:
> Of course there are lots of apps included in the cygwin distribution. My
> question is, how does one search to find what apps are installed that
> fulfill a certain purpose? For example, I want to see how many apps have
Several ideas:
1. Run "cygcheck -p keyword" which will match 'keyword' as a regexp
against the name, description, and list of filenames contained with each
package. However, since the result only contains the name and
description of the package it may be a bit confusing if the match
happened to be against a coincidently named filename.
2. Go to <http://cygwin.com/packages/> and use your browser's ctrl-F
search.
3. View the setup.ini file directly, e.g. "wget -q -O -
http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/cygwin/setup.bz2 | bzip2 -cd | less". This is
the only way to view the ldesc field, as it is not currently used by
anything.
Brian
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