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| author |   Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org> | 2006-07-15 01:37:13 +0000 |
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| committer | Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org> | 2006-07-15 01:37:13 +0000 |
| commit | 11b879722b7a289047c29ef35e897ad38da3852b (patch) | |
| tree | 5e4d5936c3e7aa9de3dd0215d7fdf2fa178154f9 /pym/emergehelp.py | |
| parent | disable regular expressions for search by default (diff) | |
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update search docs
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diff --git a/pym/emergehelp.py b/pym/emergehelp.py index ff6c4e6c..9b1c9032 100644 --- a/pym/emergehelp.py +++ b/pym/emergehelp.py @@ -107,15 +107,19 @@ def help(myaction,myopts,havecolor=1): print print " "+green("--search")+" ("+green("-s")+" short option)" print " Searches for matches of the supplied string in the current local" - print " portage tree. The search string is a regular expression." + print " portage tree. By default emerge uses a case-insensitive simple " + print " search, but you can enable a regular expression search by " + print " prefixing the search string with %%." print " Prepending the expression with a '@' will cause the category to" print " be included in the search." print " A few examples:" - print " "+bold("emerge search '^kde'") + print " "+bold("emerge --search libc") + print " list all packages that contain libc in their name" + print " "+bold("emerge --search '%^kde'") print " list all packages starting with kde" - print " "+bold("emerge search 'gcc$'") + print " "+bold("emerge --search '%gcc$'") print " list all packages ending with gcc" - print " "+bold("emerge search @^dev-java.*jdk") + print " "+bold("emerge --search '%@^dev-java.*jdk'") print " list all available Java JDKs" print print " "+green("--searchdesc")+" ("+green("-S")+" short option)" |