Package Grep source and Program not installed functionality

[Brian Dessent]

John Morrison wrote:

> Would it be possible to extend the cgi
> 
> http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi
> 
> to (optionally) output plain text instead of the formatted HTML?
> 
> Add a output=text instruction?  If the source is available I'd be willing
> to see if I could do the mod.  I was thinking of some kind of command line
> which would simplify the users finding out what package they would need to
> install to access a particular tool, for example on my ubuntu machine;

This already exists, it's spelled "cygcheck -p".

Brian