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diff --git a/man/emerge.1 b/man/emerge.1 index 7773fdff..f27e6c0a 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 |