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tlmgr-search

Search for TeX Live packages using (Perl) regular expressions.

TLDR

Search for a package name and descriptions of all locally installed packages from a specific regular expression

$ tlmgr search "[regular_expression]"
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Search for all file names of all locally installed packages from a regular expression
$ tlmgr search --file "[regular_expression]"
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Search for all file names, package names, and descriptions of all locally installed packages from a regular expression
$ tlmgr search --all "[regular_expression]"
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Search the TeX Live database, instead of the local installation
$ tlmgr search --global "[regular_expression]"
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Restrict the matches for package names and descriptions (but not for file names) to whole words
$ tlmgr search --all --word "[regular_expression]"
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