warzone ~ # eix --version
eix 0.8.8 (gcc-4.1.1, i686-pc-linux-gnu)
warzone ~ # eix --help
Usage: eix [options] EXPRESSION
Search for packages in the index generated by update-eix.
EXPRESSION is true or false. Packages for which the EXPRESSION gives true,
are included in the final report.
A EXPRESSION can be:
EXPRESSION [-o|-a] EXPRESSION
[local-options] PATTERN
Global:
Exclusive options:
-h, --help show this screen and exit
-V, --version show version and exit
--dump dump variables to stdout
--dump-defaults dump default values of variables
Special:
-t --test-non-matching Before other output, print non-matching entries
of /etc/portage/package.* and non-matching names
of installed packages; this option is best
combined with -T to clean up /etc/portage/package.*
-Q, --quick (toggle) don't read unguessable slots of installed packages
--care always read slots of installed packages
--cache-file use another cache-file instead of /var/cache/eix
Output:
-q, --quiet (toggle) (no) output
-n, --nocolor do not use ANSI color codes
-F, --force-color force colorful output
-c, --compact (toggle) compact search results
-v, --verbose (toggle) verbose search results
-x, --versionsort (toggle) sort output by slots/versions
-l, --versionlines (toggle) print available versions line-by-line
--format format string for normal output
--format-compact format string for compact output
--format-verbose format string for verbose output
Local:
Miscellaneous:
-I, --installed Next expression only matches installed packages.
-i, --multi-installed Match packages installed in several versions.
-d, --dup-packages Match duplicated packages.
-D, --dup-versions Match packages with duplicated versions.
-1, --slotted Match packages with a nontrivial slot.
-2, --slots Match packages with two different slots.
-u, --update Match packages without best slotted version.
-O, --overlay Match packages from overlays.
-J, --installed-overlay Match packages installed from overlays.
--in-overlay OVERLAY Match packages from OVERLAY.
--installed-in-overlay OVERLAY Match packages installed from OVERLAY.
--only-in-overlay OVERLAY Match packages only in OVERLAY.
-T, --test-obsolete Match packages with obsolete entries in
/etc/portage/package.* (see man eix).
Use -t to check non-existing packages.
-!, --not (toggle) Invert the expression.
-|, --pipe Use input from pipe of emerge -pv
Search Fields:
-S, --description description
-A, --category-name "category/name"
-C, --category category
-s, --name name (default)
-H, --homepage homepage
-L, --license license
-P, --provide provides
-U, --use useflags
Type of Pattern:
-r, --regex Pattern is a regexp (default)
-e, --exact Pattern is the exact string
-p, --pattern Pattern is a wildcards-pattern
-f [m], --fuzzy [m] Use fuzzy-search with a max. levenshtein-distance m.
(default: 2)
You can contact the developers in #eix on irc.freenode.net or on
the sourceforge-page http://sourceforge.net/projects/eix/.
There is also a wiki at http://eix.sourceforge.net.
This program is covered by the GNU General Public License. See COPYING for
further information.
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