Script to improve search of packages

benoitc · 2007-02-28 12:37:08

Today I saw a post in Arch Linux FR forums that remember me an old script I've done in the past.

This script allow you to find all packages that contain a keyword or all packages with keyword in name and display which one is installed or not. With the help of slubman since I released this script opensource this morning, you could also search only in installed packages or not installed packages. Another option let you exclude repository(ies) from search or search only in some repository(ies) :

[benoitc@marduk pkgsearch]$ pkgsearch.sh 
pkgsearch 0.4
usage : /home/benoitc/bin/pkgsearch.sh [-n] <searchstring>

pkgsearch list all packages that contain your
string and display installed packages

Options
  -n, --name       Search on pkgname only
  -m, --nocolor    Disable colorized output messages
  -i, --installed  Display only installed packages
  -sr, --skip-repo Exclude repo in search
  -ir, --ni-repo   Search only in repo
  -s, --skip       Display only not installed packages
  -h, --help             Display usage

Here is a little screenshot that show results of "./pkgsearch gnome" :

You could download source here :
Version 0.4 of script under GPL

You could also see my post about it :
http://bchesneau.info/articles/2007/02/ … -in-pacman

enjoy,

Benoît

Last edited by benoitc (2007-02-28 12:38:51)

benoitc · 2007-02-28 14:32:14

New version 0.5. thanks to slubman you could search on multiple words, and search in description is insensitive :

./pksearch.sh gnome gimp

You could download source here :
http://bchesneau.info/files/pkgsearch-0.5.sh.gz

benoitc · 2007-03-07 12:00:10

new version 0.6 . Code optimization :
http://bchesneau.info/files/pkgsearch-0.6.sh.gz

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#1 2007-02-28 12:37:08

Script to improve search of packages

#2 2007-02-28 14:32:14

Re: Script to improve search of packages

#3 2007-03-07 12:00:10

Re: Script to improve search of packages

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