[SOLVED] search just package name (not description) with yaourt

Is there a way to search just package names (not package descriptions) with yaourt or pacman? I'm imagining something like this:
$ yaourt -Ss --pkgname-only xterm
Thanks!
Last edited by partner55083777 (2010-02-03 16:30:43)

My question still stands as to how I can search just package names. If it is using another program other than yaourt or pacman, that is okay.
"yaourt -Ss SEARCH_STRING" has been working as stated in the documentation for me (with yaourt-0.9.2.6). It will return all packages that have SEARCH_STRING in either the package name or package description.
Here are the first three results when running this command:
$ yaourt -Ss emacs
extra/emacs 23.1-3 [installed]
The Emacs Editor
extra/snd 10.1-1
Snd is the emacs of sound editor
extra/texmacs 1.0.7-3
GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was both inspired by TeX
and GNU Emacs. WYSIWYG editor TeX-fonts and CAS-interface (Giac, GTybalt,
Macaulay 2, Maxima, Octave, Pari, Qcl, R and Yacas) in one.
$
It looks like it works as specified in the man pages:
-s, --search <'regexp'>
This will search each package in the sync databases for names or descriptions that match regexp.
When you include multiple search terms, only packages with descriptions matching ALL of those terms will be returned.
Last edited by partner55083777 (2010-02-02 22:10:24)

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[SOLVED]How to search package name only when using yaourt

I often install a AUR package by yaourt term, but it does not only search terms in package name but also package description, since there are so much packages in AUR, it produce many pages of items, and it can not support more to page one screenful at a time, It
become difficult to get the right choice,
Thank you in advance!
Last edited by netawater (2013-06-14 00:47:06)

Hey, that's one thing I actually know how to do with regexes! All package descriptions have some spaces at their beginning, the package names themselves have not, so you can just use inverted grepping like so:
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community/gtk-aurora-engine 1.5.1-1
community/gtkperf 0.40-3
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community/perl-test-deep 0.106-1
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How to search ONLY in package names, without descriptions?

Hello!
I would like to know how I can search with pacman only in the package names, without searching descriptions?
For example, searching for the rar package (pacman -Ss rar) gives me tons of results with hundreds of packages, where "library" occurs in the description.
I have already read the pacman manual page, but I couldn't find anything suitable.
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use strict;
use warnings;
my $search = "@ARGV";
my $output = '';
open(my $pipe,'-|',"pacman -Ss $search") or die "Unable to create pipe to pacman: $!\n";
while (defined(my $line=<$pipe>)){$output.=$line;}
close $pipe;
while($output=~/^(\S.*?\Q$search\E.*?\n(?:\s.*\n)*)/mgi){print $1};
Save it as "search_pkgnames", make it executable, then invoke it with your search term: search_pkgnames rar
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[SOLVED] search just package name (not description) with yaourt

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