NAME¶
dgrep, degrep, dfgrep, dzgrep -- grep through files belonging to an installed
Debian package
SYNOPSIS¶
dgrep [
most grep options]
pattern package...
dgrep --help
DESCRIPTION¶
dgrep invokes
grep(1) on each file in one or more installed Debian
packages.
It passes the
package argument(s) to
dglob(1) to retrieve a list
of files in those packages. You can use POSIX regular expressions for the
package names.
If
dgrep is invoked as
degrep,
dfgrep or
dzgrep then
egrep(1),
fgrep(1) or
zgrep(1) is used instead of
grep.
OPTIONS¶
dgrep supports most of
grep(1)'s options. Please refer to your
grep documentation (i.e. the manpage or the texinfo manual) for a
complete listing. Only a few options are excluded because they do not conform
with the intended behaviour, see the list below.
Options of grep that are not supported by dgrep¶
- -r, --recursive, -d recurse,
--directories=recurse
- -d read,
--directories=read
- dgrep searches only in the "normal" files
of a package. It skips all directories and symlinks. Therefor the options
of grep that are specific to directories are not supported.
AUTHOR¶
Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
This manpage was written by Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE¶
Copyright (C) 2001 Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
On Debian systems, a copy of the GNU General Public License may be found in
/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
SEE ALSO¶
grep(1),
egrep(1),
fgrep(1),
zgrep(1),
dglob(1),
regex(7),
dpkg(8)
