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thelastblack

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[SOLVED] wildcards in pacman

hi
i was thinking about wildcards in pacman... searched a bit but nothing found...
someone somewhere said it doesnt support wildcards and i know it doesnt supprot * or ? but nothing else? like {} or anything?
thx

Last edited by thelastblack (2011-05-11 07:12:05)

tomk

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Re: [SOLVED] wildcards in pacman

       -s, --search <regexp>
           Search each locally-installed package for names or descriptions that
           match regexp. When including multiple search terms, only packages with
           descriptions matching ALL of those terms are returned.

regexp == Regular Expressions, plenty of relevant info available about that.

falconindy

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Re: [SOLVED] wildcards in pacman

I hate to be pedantic, but i think its important to distinguish here. * and ? are not regex expressions, they're globbing characters. Searching for foo* will work, but it's not really searching for what you want (fo, followed by 0 or many additional 'o' characters). additionally, pacman supports the full POSIX extended regex grammar, which is documented in glorious detail by the section 7 manpage 'regex'.

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thelastblack

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Re: [SOLVED] wildcards in pacman

i used -s but it just shows a list, how to install them automatically?

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] wildcards in pacman

i used -s but it just shows a list, how to install them automatically?

You mean

sudo pacman -S $(pacman -Ssq foo)

?

thelastblack

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Re: [SOLVED] wildcards in pacman

should work... thx