Searching for apps in cygwin by keyword

Sat Nov 3 08:25:00 GMT 2007

Hi and thanks for getting back to me. I guess each of these options
have a balance between ease of use and the detail returned. However, it
may well be worth suggesting a system such as the one I described being
implemented in a future cygwin update. So the description metadata from
setup.ini is somehow stored in a package which can be searched, thus
avoiding the filename/keyword clash of option 1, or needing internet
access as option 2.
Thank again.
H.
On 2007年11月02日 22:21:18 -0700, "Brian Dessent" <brian@dessent.net>
said:
> 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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