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Re: Regular Expressions on the Package Search Page
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2017 20:22:02 +0200
- Subject: Re: Regular Expressions on the Package Search Page
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Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] writes:
> On the Cygwin Package Search page
> <https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi>
> either regular expression matching doesn't work or way to let the
> search engine know that one is looking for a regex needs to be
> documented.
You rather have the wrong expectations w.r.t. the text you are
attempring to match.
> Found 769 matches for /usr/share/
If you click on one of those results you'll see that the only thing this
matches are symlink targets. The actual file paths don't start with a
slash (they are relative to /) and they are not the beginning of a line
either.
Regards,
Achim.
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