X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Gmane User Subject: Re: whole-word matches searches of mailing list archive & packages Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 02:56:45 -0500 Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <43DBD7F5.5050100@doe.carleton.ca> <43DBDF72.D25F24CC@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Gmane User wrote: > Brian Dessent wrote: > >>Fred Ma wrote: >> >>>I was searching for whether the current cygwin has the "stat" command. >>>This is for future reference, since I am unable to update my old >>>cygwin installation at the moment. I eventually found that "stat" >>>resides in coreutils, but I was wondering if there is a way to specify >>>whole-word matches when searching either the mailing list archive or >>>while performing a Setup Package Search. The reason is that some >>>words are very common as partial words, so searches tend to come up >>>with many unrelated hits. Thanks. >> >>The search is a regular expression. If you are searching for a binary >>of a particular name, use "/foo\.exe" which will anchor the match so >>that it can only match a command by that name, i.e. >>/some/path/to/foo.exe. See "man pcre" for more information. > > > Thanks, Brian. "man pcrepattern" cleared this up, and I found that > I could do a package search for (say) \bstat\.exe\b. It doesn't > seem to work on a search of the mailing list archive, though. A > search for stat.exe, stat\.exe, and "stat.exe" seems to find > pages containing "stat" and "exe" rather than "stat.exe". But > I appreciate the pointer to PCRE for the package search. I forgot to mention that I found the advanced search panel for the mailing list archive. The above problem still exists, though the whole-word matching is solved. Fred -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/