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| author | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2015-01-17 20:32:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2015-01-26 18:36:06 +0100 |
| commit | 3802dd1144df87b637bbe8b8351f467fe49e4674 (patch) | |
| tree | 3920854259059765cdc36d0bb1991b798d7d9165 /man/dpkg-query.1 | |
| parent | 74d64b44768dbe4cf1a672f9ff982d160e5734e3 (diff) | |
| download | dpkg-3802dd1144df87b637bbe8b8351f467fe49e4674.tar.gz | |
man: Use “wildcard characters” instead of “wildchars” in dpkg-query(1)
Diffstat (limited to 'man/dpkg-query.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/dpkg-query.1 | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/dpkg-query.1 b/man/dpkg-query.1 index 27ce55b90..48e5cc3d2 100644 --- a/man/dpkg-query.1 +++ b/man/dpkg-query.1 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ the \fBdpkg\fP database. List packages matching given pattern. If no \fIpackage-name-pattern\fP is given, list all packages in \fI/var/lib/dpkg/status\fP, excluding the ones marked as not-installed (i.e. those which have been previously -purged). Normal shell wildchars are allowed +purged). Normal shell wildcard characters are allowed in \fIpackage-name-pattern\fP. Please note you will probably have to quote \fIpackage-name-pattern\fP to prevent the shell from performing filename expansion. For example this will list all package names starting @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ for that, this command will not get removed. .TP .BR \-S ", " \-\-search " \fIfilename-search-pattern\fP..." Search for packages that own files corresponding to the given pattern. -Standard shell wildchars can be used in the pattern. +Standard shell wildcard characters can be used in the pattern. This command will not list extra files created by maintainer scripts, nor will it list alternatives. .TP |