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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 410e6fa37c..3fee24db50 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -546,10 +546,21 @@ availability of packages: @item --search=@var{regexp} @itemx -s @var{regexp} List the available packages whose synopsis or description matches -@var{regexp}. +@var{regexp}. Print all the meta-data of matching packages in +@code{recutils} format (@pxref{Top, GNU recutils databases,, recutils, +GNU recutils manual}). -For each package, print the following items, separated by tabs: its -name, version, and the source location of its definition. +This allows specific fields to be extracted using the @command{recsel} +command, for instance: + +@example +$ guix-package -s malloc | recsel -p name,version +name: glibc +version: 2.17 + +name: libgc +version: 7.2alpha6 +@end example @item --list-installed[=@var{regexp}] @itemx -I [@var{regexp}] |