dgrep1
Usage
dgrep [most
grep
options]
pattern
package ...
dgrep --help
Overview
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. It uses dglob's substring pattern matching for the package names.
If dgrep is invoked as degrep, dfgrep or dzgrep, etc. then grep(1) with option "-E" or "-F" respectively the command zgrep(1) is used instead of grep(1).
Options
dgrep supports most of grep(1)'s options. Please refer to your grep(1) 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
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-r, --recursive, -d recurse, --directories=recurse
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-d read, --directories=read -
dgrepsearches only in the "normal" files of a package. It skips all directories and symlinks. Therefore the options of grep that are specific to directories are not supported.
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 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 version 2 can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.
Releases
11 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 10 times.
--directories since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze);
--recursive since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze);
-d since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze);
-r since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).