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Re: whole-word matches searches of mailing list archive & packages


Gmane User wrote:
> Brian Dessent wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Thanks, Brian.  "man pcrepattern" cleared this up, and I found that
> I could do a package search for (say) \bstat\.exe\b.  It doesn't
> seem to work on a search of the mailing list archive, though.  A
> search for stat.exe, stat\.exe, and "stat.exe" seems to find
> pages containing "stat" and "exe" rather than "stat.exe".  But
> I appreciate the pointer to PCRE for the package search.

I forgot to mention that I found the advanced search panel for the
mailing list archive.  The above problem still exists, though the
whole-word matching is solved.

Fred


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