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Sabrina
Asked: 2019-11-30 21:57:34 +0800 CST

apt show to display all possibilities in a screen

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Whenever apt show lib typed then followed by tab button twice, the following possibilities will be displayed. 

user@linux:~$ apt show lib
Display all 24553 possibilities? (y or n)
lib32asan0                                                        libisccfg-export160
lib32asan0-dbg                                                    libisc-export160
lib32asan2                                                        libisc-export169
*... output truncated ...*
lib32asan5-dbg-ppc64-cross                                        libisofs-dev
lib32asan5-dbg-s390x-cross                                        libisofs-doc
lib32asan5-dbg-sparc64-cross                                      libisoparser-java
--More--

There are over 20k possibilities, so there is --More-- option at the end of the page.

Would it be possible to print all these 20k output in a single screen so that I can grep the result or redirect it to a file without hitting spacebar button many times?

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Use this command instead

    apt-cache search [package name]

    Here use apt-cache search lib

    This shows all the lib packages without the need of hitting space

    Hope that helps :)

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