- Clarify description of 'search' on apt-cache(8) (Clos...

[apt.git] / doc / apt-cache.8.sgml

diff --git a/doc/apt-cache.8.sgml b/doc/apt-cache.8.sgml
index 93fce51c2d5d89199c75fbc02bef6b4e9483ad66..49d2020d5593eea1f9efa3ba814b9d009aaeb421 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/apt-cache.8.sgml
+++ b/doc/apt-cache.8.sgml
@@ -206,13 +206,13 @@ Reverse Provides:
 
      <VarListEntry><Term>search <replaceable/regex [ regex ... ]/</Term>
      <ListItem><Para>
-     <literal/search/ performs a full text search on all available package 
-     files for the regex pattern given. It searches the package names and the 
-     descriptions for an occurrence of the string and prints out the package 
-     name and the short description. If <option/--full/ is given then output 
-     identical to <literal/show/ is produced for each matched package, and 
-     if <option/--names-only/ is given then the long description is not 
-     searched, only the package name is.
+     <literal/search/ performs a full text search on all available package
+     lists for the regex pattern given. It searches the package names and the
+     descriptions for an occurrence of the regular expression and prints out
+     the package name and the short description. If <option/--full/ is given
+     then output identical to <literal/show/ is produced for each matched
+     package, and if <option/--names-only/ is given then the long description
+     is not searched, only the package name is.
      <para>
      Seperate arguments can be used to specify multiple search patterns that 
      are and'ed together.