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@@ -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.