flox search

NAME

flox-search - search for packages

SYNOPSIS

flox [<general options>] search
     [--json]
     [-a]
     <search-term>

DESCRIPTION

Search for available packages.

A limited number of search results are reported by default for brevity. The full result set can be returned via the -a flag.

Only the package name and description are shown by default. Structured search results can be returned via the --json flag. More specific information for a single package is available via the flox-show(1) command.

Package names

Packages are organized in a hierarchical structure such that certain packages are found at the top level (e.g. ripgrep), and other packages are found under package sets (e.g. python310Packages.pip). We call this location within the catalog the "pkg-path".

The pkg-path is searched when you execute a flox search command. The pkg-path is what's shown by flox show. Finally, the pkg-path appears in your manifest after a flox install.

[install]
ripgrep.pkg-path = "ripgrep"
pip.pkg-path = "python310Packages.pip"

Fuzzy search

flox search uses a fuzzy search mechanism that tries to match either some portion of the pkg-path or description.

OPTIONS

Search Options

<search-term> The package name to search for.

--json Display the search results in JSON format.

-a, --all Display all search results (default: at most 10).

General Options

-h, --help Prints help information.

The following options can be passed when running any flox subcommand but must be specified before the subcommand.

-v, --verbose Increase logging verbosity. Invoke multiple times for increasing detail.

-q, --quiet Silence logs except for errors.