NAME

apf - autonomous package finder

SYNOPSIS

apf <command> <pattern>

DESCRIPTION

apf is a command line tool to search for a package containing given file or to list the contents of a package available from repository

COMMANDS

find - find packages which contain files matching pattern

search - same as find

list - list files in the packages matching pattern

show - same as list

update - update database (normally executed by crond(8))

Commands may be abbreviated (inambiguously).

NOTES

pattern is directly passed to the Perl interpreter and MUST (in the sence of RFC-2119) contain valid regular expression.

list outputs unsorted data; use sort(1) if necessary.

BUGS

Incompatible with similar tools found in some other distributions (wouldn't fix).

FILES

/etc/apf/apf.conf - configuration file

/var/cache/apf - database directory

SEE ALSO

apt(8)