apt show to display all possibilities in a screen

Whenever apt show lib typed then followed by tab button twice, the following possibilities will be displayed.

user@linux:~$ apt show lib Display all 24553 possibilities? (y or n) lib32asan0 libisccfg-export160 lib32asan0-dbg libisc-export160 lib32asan2 libisc-export169 *... output truncated ...* lib32asan5-dbg-ppc64-cross libisofs-dev lib32asan5-dbg-s390x-cross libisofs-doc lib32asan5-dbg-sparc64-cross libisoparser-java --More-- 

There are over 20k possibilities, so there is --More-- option at the end of the page.

Would it be possible to print all these 20k output in a single screen so that I can grep the result or redirect it to a file without hitting spacebar button many times?

1 Answer

Use this command instead

apt-cache search [package name]

Here use apt-cache search lib

This shows all the lib packages without the need of hitting space

Hope that helps :)

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