On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 12:23:43 +0100, A. Dumas wrote:

> On 24-03-2021 12:01, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> It would appear that that are three:  bwbasic, sdlbasic and yabasic
>> [...]
>> sudo apt search "basic interpreter" | less to find these Raspbian
>> packages.
>
> Won't you only find packages that have the exact description "basic
> interpreter" that way, or is the search cleverer than that?
>
Its cleverer than that: it matches packages using a regex. Changing the
regex to "basic.*interpreter" added one other relevant hit:
 'brandy', a BBC BASIC V interpreter

Be aware that 'apt search' is looking at the package's description, not
its name, so a fairly generic regex like the one I used is likely to
include irrelevant packages in its hits list. Since it only displays the
first sentence in each description, its not always obvious why a
particular hit got into the list.


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