dglob - Expand package names or files matching a pattern

       Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>

       This manpage was written by Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>,  and  further  enhanced  by  Javier
       Fernandez-Sanguino <jfs@debian.org>.

       Copyright (C) 2001 Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>.

       This  program  is  free  software;  you  can  redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
       General Public License as published by the Free Software  Foundation;  either  version  2,  or  (at  your
       option) any later version.

       On   Debian   systems,   a   copy  of  the  GNU  General  Public  License  version  2  can  be  found  in
       /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.

dglob lists packages names matching a substring pattern. It can also list all the files they contain. By
       default dglob only searches installed packages; the -a and -n switch widens the search (see "OPTIONS").
       The list is written to stdout, one name per line.

       grep-dctrl(1) and grep-aptavail(1) are used to search the list of packages, so you should refer to its
       documentation for information on how patterns are matched.  By default, all packages whose name contains
       the given string will be matched, but several options are available to modify this behavior (see
       "OPTIONS").

       If you use dglob with the -f option, all files in the matched packages are listed instead of their names.
       If you do not use de -a switch, only existing, plain (i.e. no symlinks, directories or other special
       ones) files are listed. If the -a switch is use then all files will be listed both for installed and non-
       installed packages. The filenames are written to stdout, one file per line. You can use the -0 option to
       get the filenames separated by '\0' instead of a newline.

        $ dglob libc6
        libc6-dbg:amd64
        libc6:amd64
        libc6:i386
        libc6-i386:amd64
        libc6-dev:amd64

        $ dglob libc6:amd64
        libc6-dbg:amd64
        libc6:amd64
        libc6-i386:amd64
        libc6-dev:amd64

        $ dglob zsh:all
        zsh-syntax-highlighting:all
        zsh-theme-powerlevel9k:all
        zsh-doc:all
        zsh-common:all
        zsh-antigen:all
        fizsh:all

        $ dglob -n libc6:i386
        libc6-amd64-dbgsym:i386
        libc6-amd64:i386
        libc6-dbg:i386
        libc6-dev-amd64:i386
        libc6-dev-x32:i386
        libc6-dev:i386
        libc6-pic:i386
        libc6-x32-dbgsym:i386
        libc6-x32:i386
        libc6-xen:i386

        $ dglob -a :amd64 | wc -l
        45846
        $ dglob -a :i386 | wc -l
        45185
        $ dglob -a :all | wc -l
        28995

/var/lib/dpkg/statusdpkg(8) status file, which serves as source for the list of available and installed packages.

       dglob - Expand package names or files matching a pattern

dglob supports the following options:

       -a  Search through all available packages, not just installed ones.  If set, grep-aptavail(1) is used.

       -A  Do not emit architecture qualifiers on result.

       -n  Search through all the available packages but not including installed ones.  If set, grep-aptavail(1)
           is used.

       -f  List  all  files  in  the  matched  packages.  By  default,  this lists only installed (i.e.  locally
           existing) files from installed packages. If used together with -a then it will list all files both of
           installed and non-installed packages by mean of apt-file(1). If apt-file is not installed,  using  -f
           together with -a is rather pointless.

       -0  When listing files (with -f) use '\0' as a separator instead of a newline. When specified without -f,
           this options does nothing.

       -r, -e, -i, -X, -v
           These  options  are passed directly to grep-dctrl(1) or to grep-aptavail(1) to modify how the pattern
           is matched.  See grep-dctrl(1).

grep-dctrl(1), grep-available(1), apt-file(1), dpkg(8)

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dglob [-a] patterndglob [-0] -fpattern