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| author | Eric Pozharski <whynot@pozharski.name> | 2020-12-01 21:37:12 -0600 |
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| committer | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackware.com> | 2020-12-01 21:37:12 -0600 |
| commit | 3d47ee175c694b101cb1bd668c6fe244c853e946 (patch) | |
| tree | 262c26e49ac0eec9eda83f794e0777c52a2fe77f | |
| parent | 9b950fcbaacb38c3c792ec49b9efb47288dc8c8b (diff) | |
| download | slackpkg-3d47ee175c694b101cb1bd668c6fe244c853e946.tar.xz | |
slackpkg.8: document issues with filenames having spaces
Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackware.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | files/slackpkg.8 | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/files/slackpkg.8 b/files/slackpkg.8 index 4ec901a..02da92f 100644 --- a/files/slackpkg.8 +++ b/files/slackpkg.8 @@ -166,6 +166,12 @@ distribution. Do you need a strange library? Use file-search to find it. All packages with matching "filename" will be shown, thus you can see whether the packages are installed or not; if not, you can download and install them with other slackpkg actions. +Multiple filenames may be requested for searching by separating them with +space; those fragments will be ORed; +still, "filename" must be one argument; quotes and/or escapes are at your +discretion. +See also +.BR CAVEATS . .TP 5 .B search @@ -301,6 +307,13 @@ careful, this can put your machine in an unusable state. The "include" handling can be activated/deactivated in slackpkg.conf or with the appropriate option in command-line. +.SH CAVEATS +Long story short \(em spaces in filenames (of "file-search" action) are not +supported. +If you happen to be looking for a filename-with-space, you are safe to use the +left-most part up to the space (in that the right-most part after the space +will be ignored anyway (at best) or yield noise (at worst)). + .SH FILES .TP 5 .B /etc/slackpkg/mirrors |