From 1925db5c770427f99c0e23dacbf16ac2b707ffa3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Massimiliano Culpo <massimiliano.culpo@googlemail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 18:43:28 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] spack list : updated documentation (#2004) * spack list : updated documentation * spack list : removed space before ':' --- lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst | 23 +++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst b/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst index 306d64409d..878f0df0dd 100644 --- a/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst +++ b/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst @@ -39,27 +39,18 @@ Spack can install: .. command-output:: spack list -The packages are listed by name in alphabetical order. If you specify a -pattern to match, it will follow this set of rules. A pattern with no -wildcards, ``*`` or ``?``, will be treated as though it started and ended with -``*``, so ``util`` is equivalent to ``*util*``. A pattern with no capital -letters will be treated as case-insensitive. You can also add the ``-i`` flag -to specify a case insensitive search, or ``-d`` to search the description of +The packages are listed by name in alphabetical order. +A pattern to match with no wildcards, ``*`` or ``?``, +will be treated as though it started and ended with +``*``, so ``util`` is equivalent to ``*util*``. All patterns will be treated +as case-insensitive. You can also add the ``-d`` to search the description of the package in addition to the name. Some examples: -All packages whose names contain "sql" case insensitive: +All packages whose names contain "sql": .. command-output:: spack list sql -All packages whose names start with a capital M: - -.. command-output:: spack list 'M*' - -All packages whose names or descriptions contain Documentation: - -.. command-output:: spack list --search-description Documentation - -All packages whose names contain documentation case insensitive: +All packages whose names or descriptions contain documentation: .. command-output:: spack list --search-description documentation -- GitLab