dgrep (1)

Name

dgrep, degrep, dfgrep, dzgrep -- grep through files belonging to an installed Debian package

Synopsis

dgrep [most grep options] pattern package...

dgrep --help

Description

dgrep invokes grep(1) on each file in one or more installed Debian packages.

It passes the package argument(s) to dglob(1) to retrieve a list of files in those packages. You can use POSIX regular expressions for the package names.

If dgrep is invoked as degrep, dfgrep or dzgrep then egrep(1) , fgrep(1) or zgrep(1) is used instead of grep.

dgrep supports most of grep(1) ’s options. Please refer to your grep documentation (i.e. the manpage or the texinfo manual) for a complete listing. Only a few options are excluded because they do not conform with the intended behaviour, see the list below.

Options of grep that are not supported by dgrep

-r, --recursive, -d recurse, --directories=recurse: -d read, --directories=read dgrep searches only in the “normal” files of a package. It skips all directories and symlinks. Therefor the options of grep that are specific to directories are not supported.

Author

Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>

This manpage was written by Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>.

Copyright and Licence

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

On Debian systems, a copy of the GNU General Public License may be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.