Cygwin: cygcheck: improve documentation

Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
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Corinna Vinschen 2023-01-29 17:52:13 +01:00
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<command>cygcheck</command>
<arg choice="plain">-k</arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>cygcheck</command>
<arg choice="plain">-e</arg>
<arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>cygcheck</command>
<arg choice="plain">-i</arg>
<arg>--inst</arg>
<arg>--curr</arg>
<arg>--prev</arg>
<arg>--test</arg>
<arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>PATTERN</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>cygcheck</command>
<arg choice="plain">-f</arg>
@ -171,6 +185,16 @@ At least one command option or a PROGRAM is required, as shown above.
-r, --registry also scan registry for Cygwin settings (with -s)
-k, --keycheck perform a keyboard check session (must be run from a
plain console only, not from a pty/rxvt/xterm)
-e, --search-package list all available packages matching PATTERN
PATTERN is a glob pattern with * and ? as wildcard chars
-i, --info-package print full info on packages matching PATTERN, installed
and available packages
PATTERN is a glob pattern with * and ? as wildcard chars
info selection specifiers (multiple allowed):
--inst only print info on installed package
--curr only print info on most recent available package
--prev only print info on older, but still available packages
--test only print info on test packages
-f, --find-package find the package to which FILE belongs
-l, --list-package list contents of PACKAGE (or all packages if none given)
-p, --package-query search for REGEXP in the entire cygwin.com package
@ -184,9 +208,11 @@ At least one command option or a PROGRAM is required, as shown above.
with another command, otherwise print this help
-V, --version print the version of cygcheck and exit
Note: -c, -f, and -l only report on packages that are currently installed. To
search all official Cygwin packages use -p instead. The -p REGEXP matches
package names, descriptions, and names of files/paths within all packages.
Notes:
-c, -f, and -l only report on packages that are currently installed.
-i and -e report on available packages, too. To search for files within
uninstalled Cygwin packages, use -p. The -p REGEXP matches package names,
descriptions, and names of files/paths within all packages.
</screen>
</refsect1>
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list one or more programs on the command line and specify
<literal>-s</literal>, <command>cygcheck</command> will report on
both.</para>
<para> The <literal>-e</literal> option allows to seach for available
packages in the Cygwin distribution. <literal>PATTERN</literal> is
a glob pattern, using * and ? as wildcard characters, just as in
filename patterns. <literal>PATTERN</literal> is searched for in
the package name and the summary of a package.</para>
<para> The <literal>-i</literal> option prints a lot of information
available for installed packages, as well as for available packages
in the Cygwin distribution. <literal>PATTERN</literal> is a glob
pattern, using * and ? as wildcard characters, just as in filename
patterns. <literal>PATTERN</literal> is compared against the
package name as well as against the combined package name and version.
With additional info selectors, <literal>--inst</literal>,
<literal>--curr</literal>, <literal>--prev</literal>, and
<literal>--test</literal>, allow to specify that only information
in terms of installed, current latest available, older available,
as well as test packages respectively, is requested.</para>
<example
id="utils-cygcheck-eiex"><title>Example <command>cygcheck</command> -e/-i
usage</title>
<screen>
$ cygcheck -e grep
grep : search for regular expression matches in text files
grep-debuginfo : Debug info for grep
grepmail : search mailboxes for mail matching an expression
pdfgrep : Command-line utility for searching text in PDFs
pdfgrep-debuginfo : Debug info for pdfgrep
sgrep : Search indexed text regions like SGML,XML and HTML files
$ cygcheck -i --curr grep
Latest available package:
-------------------------
Name : grep
Version : 3.8
Release : 2
Architecture: x86_64
Size : 401340 (392 K)
Source : grep-3.8-2-src.tar.xz
Summary : search for regular expression matches in text files
Description :
GNU grep searches one or more input files for lines containing a
match to a specified pattern. By default, grep outputs the matching lines.
The GNU implementation includes several useful extensions over POSIX.
</screen>
</example>
<para> Note that <literal>-e</literal> and <literal>-i</literal>
options fetch info from a distribution db file. This file will be
downloading on demand and refreshed if it's older than 24 hours.</para>
<para> The <literal>-f</literal> option helps you to track down which
package a file came from, and <literal>-l</literal> lists all files in a
package. For example, to find out about
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</para>
<example
id="utils-cygcheck-ex"><title>Example <command>cygcheck</command>
id="utils-cygcheck-ex"><title>Example <command>cygcheck</command> -f/-l
usage</title>
<screen>
$ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/less

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cygcheck -k\n\
cygcheck -f FILE [FILE]...\n\
cygcheck -l [PACKAGE]...\n\
cygcheck -i [--inst,--curr,--prev,--test] [PATTERN]...\n\
cygcheck -i [--inst] [--curr] [--prev] [--test] [PATTERN]...\n\
cygcheck -e [PATTERN]...\n\
cygcheck -p REGEXP\n\
cygcheck --delete-orphaned-installation-keys\n\
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-V, --version print the version of cygcheck and exit\n\
\n\
Notes:\n\
-c, -f, and -l only report on packages that are currently installed. To\n\
search all official Cygwin packages use -p instead. The -p REGEXP matches\n\
package names, descriptions, and names of files/paths within all packages.\n\
-c, -f, and -l only report on packages that are currently installed.\n\
-i and -e report on available packages, too. To search for files within\n\
uninstalled Cygwin packages, use -p. The -p REGEXP matches package names,\n\
descriptions, and names of files/paths within all packages.\n\
\n");
exit (status);
}