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| author | Todd Gamblin <tgamblin@llnl.gov> | 2019-05-23 10:44:14 -0700 |
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| committer | Todd Gamblin <tgamblin@llnl.gov> | 2019-05-23 12:40:01 -0700 |
| commit | ab21b3d19492e2233c011a120f2414eea989dee0 (patch) | |
| tree | 662510fdd8cf8e9e6c7065994628a4f7fa5a79ba /lib | |
| parent | d6cf3b67182a4f77fce7f79600514f366d4525e1 (diff) | |
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docs: truncate `spack list` output in basic usage
`spack list` output is very long and takes up a lot of space in the docs.
Truncate it to just 10 lines and link to the package list page.
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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst b/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst index 65fc1b384e..8748762fa0 100644 --- a/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst +++ b/lib/spack/docs/basic_usage.rst @@ -39,12 +39,15 @@ available. You can see a list of available package names at the ``spack list`` ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -The ``spack list`` command prints out a list of all of the packages -Spack can install: +The ``spack list`` command prints out a list of all of the packages Spack +can install: .. command-output:: spack list + :ellipsis: 10 -The packages are listed by name in alphabetical order. +There are thosands of them, so we've truncated the output above, but you +can find a :ref:`full list here <package-list>`. +Packages are listed by name in alphabetical order. A pattern to match with no wildcards, ``*`` or ``?``, will be treated as though it started and ended with ``*``, so ``util`` is equivalent to ``*util*``. All patterns will be treated |