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 \s-1POSIX\s0 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 \*(L"normal\*(R" 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 <[email protected]>

This manpage was written by Frank Lichtenheld <[email protected]>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2001 Matt Zimmerman <[email protected]>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the \s-1GNU\s0 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 \s-1GNU\s0 General Public License may be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

RELATED TO dzgrep…

grep\|(1), egrep\|(1), fgrep\|(1), zgrep\|(1), dglob\|(1), regex\|(7), dpkg\|(8)