From b110869dd31f790bbc8c21149c9e5fb03acdc422 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ludovic Courtès Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 14:46:11 +0100 Subject: doc: Add elaborate package search example. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix package): Add elaborate --search example using recsel and sexes. --- doc/guix.texi | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/guix.texi') diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index c252f63ff6..fc8a51536d 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -1434,6 +1434,7 @@ availability of packages: @item --search=@var{regexp} @itemx -s @var{regexp} +@cindex searching for packages List the available packages whose name, synopsis, or description matches @var{regexp}. Print all the meta-data of matching packages in @code{recutils} format (@pxref{Top, GNU recutils databases,, recutils, @@ -1477,6 +1478,19 @@ that deal with printed circuit boards; removing the angle brackets around @code{board} would further add packages that have to do with keyboards. +And now for a more elaborate example. The following command searches +for cryptographic libraries, filters out Haskell, Perl, Python, and Ruby +libraries, and prints the name and synopsis of the matching packages: + +@example +$ guix package -s crypto -s library | \ + recsel -e '! (name ~ "^(ghc|perl|python|ruby)")' -p name,synopsis +@end example + +@noindent +@xref{Selection Expressions,,, recutils, GNU recutils manual}, for more +information on @dfn{selection expressions} for @code{recsel -e}. + @item --show=@var{package} Show details about @var{package}, taken from the list of available packages, in @code{recutils} format (@pxref{Top, GNU recutils databases,, recutils, GNU -- cgit 1.4.1