Tiny feature request for slapt-mod

[pterid]

My puzzle for today...

If you want to search a package with a short name, e.g. the line editor named after a great contributor to this forum, you get a lot of results.

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root@porteus:/home/guest# slapt-mod -s ed | wc -l
1111
root@porteus:/home/guest# 

But if you change line 110 of slapt-mod from:

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        slapt-get --available | grep -i $PKG | awk '{print $1,"",substr($0,index($0,$4))}' 

to:

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        slapt-get --available | grep -i -E "^$PKG" | awk '{print $1,"",substr($0,index($0,$4))}' 

the results list is reduced from 1111 to 10, and the more exacting

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        slapt-get --available | grep -i -E "^$PKG-" | awk '{print $1,"",substr($0,index($0,$4))}' 

gives only the two correct results.

Could this behaviour be introduced as another mode, e.g. -s for contains, -S for exact match?

[pterid]

My modified slapt-mod with -s|-S feature (including modified help text) is at

https://pastebin.com/LkBa1wt1

(pastebin expiry time: 6 months)

[ncmprhnsbl]

looks good, thanks will be included

[pterid]

ncmprhnsbl, thank you so much! This is my first technical "contribution" to an open source project, I hope not my last!