Wildcards in package queries

Niinu · 2023-08-15 23:30:43

I need the the output of:
pacman -Qq | grep '*-git'
But it gives a no matches found error.

Meanwhile running only:
pacman -Qq | grep git
produces a boatload of packages including git, which is not desired for the output.

The only mentions about globs in the man page are about the --overwrite flag when upgrading.

And the only thread I find about pacman and globs is from 2004 where a developer says they're a work in progress.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 036#p46036

Do pacman queries still not support globbing in 2023?

Trilby · 2023-08-16 00:16:10

Niinu wrote:

pacman -Qq | grep '*-git'

That's not how grep works. Globs and regular-expressions are not the same thing.

With that, pacman does not use (shell style) globs for searching, but can / does use regular expressions:

pacman -Qsq '.*-git'

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