CHAPTER 10 – PEAR COMMANDS – pear search

If you want to install a package but don't remember what it was called, or just wonder if there is a package that does X, you can search for it with the pear search command, which does a substring search in package names. Here's an example: $ pear search xml MATCHED PACKAGES: ================= PACKAGE LATEST LOCAL XML_Beautifier 1.1 Class to format XML documents. XML_CSSML 1.1 The PEAR::XML_CSSML package provides methods for creating cascading style sheets (CSS) from an XML standard called CSSML. XML_fo2pdf 0.98 Converts a xsl-fo file to pdf/ps/pcl text/etc with the help of apache-fop XML_HTMLSax 2.1.2 A SAX based parser for HTML and other badly formed XML documents XML_image2svg 0.1 Image to SVG conversion XML_NITF 1.0.0 Parse NITF documents. XML_Parser 1.1.0 1.1.0 XML parsing class based on PHP's bundled expat XML_RSS 0.9.2 RSS parser XML_SVG 0.0.3 XML_SVG API XML_Transformer 1.0.1 XML Transformations in PHP XML_Tree 1.1 Represent XML data in a tree structure XML_Util 0.5.2 0.5.2 XML utility class. XML_RPC 1.1.0 1.1.0 PHP implementation of the XML-RPC protocol The output is displayed in four columns: package name, latest version available online, locally installed version (or blank if you do not have that pack- age installed), and a short description.