apt search

Search for a package by name or description.

Overview

Searches for the given term(s) in the list of available packages and displays the matching ones.

apt search [options] search_term(s)

--names-only

Only search in package names, not descriptions.

$ apt search text editor

Search for packages related to "text editor".

$ apt search --names-only zip

Search for packages with "zip" in their name.

Concatenate and display file content

Print lines matching a pattern

Search for files in a directory hierarchy

Print newline, word, and byte counts for each file

Create a new user or update default new user information

Print or set the system date and time

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