man(8)

💅 man(8) — zypper-search-packages 🎀

okay so real talk, bestie: this is the manual page for zypper-search-packages, living in section 8 of the man pages (that's the sysadmin-commands zone, iykyk). Buckle up, it's actually so good.

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✨ NAME ✨

zypper-search-packages — the extended search for packages, like regular search but it went to the gym 💪

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

zypper search-packages [options] package1 [package2 [...]]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

zypper search-packages does an extended search for packages — and the way it does it is kind of iconic honestly: it covers all potential SLE modules by querying RMT/SCC. ✨

Heads up bestie: this operation needs access to a network. No wifi, no vibes. 😭

And same as for the normal search operation, the search string can be a part of a package name — unless you use the --match-exact option, which is giving strict-girl energy. 💅

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

• --match-substrings — search for a match to partial words. This is the default, so it's already doing this whether you asked or not 🫶
• -x, --match-exact — search for an exact match of the search strings. no substrings, no half-measures, periodt 💀
• -C, --case-sensitive — perform a case-sensitive search. capital letters MATTER now 👑
• --sort-by-name — sort packages by name. also the default, so she's already sorted ✨
• --sort-by-repo — sort packages by repository or module instead. switch it up 🦋
• -g, --group-by-module — group the results by module (the default behaviour is group by package). choose your grouping era 💜
• --no-query-local — do not search installed packages and packages in available repositories. local? never heard of her 🙈
• -s, --details — display more detailed information about found packages. the tea ☕
• --xmlout — switch to XML output. machine-readable slay 🔥

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• zypper(8) — the main character herself 🌟

💀 BUGS 💀

No known bugs. not a single one. flawless behaviour, no cap 🙈✨

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

SUSE LLC (<scc-feedback@suse.de>) — ily, thanks for this one 🫶

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 🍓 — this iconic little doc is from January 2022, and yes, it's still filed under man(8) in the zypper-search-packages man page. mwah 💋