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.TH DLOCATE 1 "March 2002"
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dlocate \- program to view debian package information
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is a fast alternative to dpkg for queries like `dpkg -L' and `dpkg -S'
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list all records where either package name or filename matches
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Produces a short help message.
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list records where files match
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simplistic emulation of `dpkg -l'. Shows all packages which match
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Internally this uses egrep on a file containing the reformatted output
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of `dpkg -l' (four fields separated by one space-character: status,
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package-name, installed version, description) so it will return packages whose
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tag-line matches, too. Extended regular expression are allowed. For example,
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\fBdlocate -l '^.. libc5'\fP will list all the package names starting with
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`ls -ldF' of all files in
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`ls -ldF' of conffiles in
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`du -sck' of all files in
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list md5sums (if any) of
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check md5sums (if any) of
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list man pages (if any) of
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.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
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Sets the number of columns \fBdlocate\fP should use when displaying formatted
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text. Currently only used by -l. Values lower than 80 are ignored.
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\fBupdate-dlocatedb\fP(8),
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dlocate was written by Jim Pick <jim@pick.com> and Craig Sanders
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<cas@taz.net.au>. dlocate is Free Software licensed under the GNU
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General Public License.