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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.

Brian

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