diff --git a/pages/common/tlmgr-search.md b/pages/common/tlmgr-search.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0612d7cd67 --- /dev/null +++ b/pages/common/tlmgr-search.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +# tlmgr search + +> Search for TeX Live packages using (Perl) regular expressions. +> More information: . + +- Search for a package name and descriptions of all locally installed packages from a specific regular expression: + +`tlmgr search "{{regular_expression}}"` + +- Search for all file names of all locally installed packages from a regular expression: + +`tlmgr search --file "{{regular_expression}}"` + +- Search for all file names, package names, and descriptions of all locally installed packages from a regular expression: + +`tlmgr search --all "{{regular_expression}}"` + +- Search the TeX Live database, instead of the local installation: + +`tlmgr search --global "{{regular_expression}}"` + +- Restrict the matches for package names and descriptions (but not for file names) to whole words: + +`tlmgr search --all --word "{{regular_expression}}"`