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vcpkg search

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Synopsis

vcpkg search [options] [query]

Description

Searches for available packages by name and description.

Search performs a case-insensitive search through all available package names and descriptions. The results are displayed in a tabular format.

Example

$ vcpkg search zlib
miniz                    2.2.0#1          Single C source file zlib-replacement library
zlib                     1.2.12#1         A compression library
zlib-ng                  2.0.6            zlib replacement with optimizations for 'next generation' systems

Options

All vcpkg commands support a set of common options.

--x-full-desc

Experimental and may change or be removed at any time

Do not truncate long descriptions.

By default, long descriptions will be truncated to keep the tabular output browsable.