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quarkup

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[request] Pacman and Wildcards

Hi !

Is there any wildcard - similar to the bash wildcards: "*", "?" and "[xpto]" - to be used with pacman, or with Yaourt ?

thank you very much.

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Xyne

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Re: [request] Pacman and Wildcards

From the very top of the yaourt man page:

yaourt(8)

NAME
       yaourt - more than a frontend to pacman

SYNOPSIS
       yaourt <operation> [options] [packages]

EXAMPLES
       yaourt regexp
              search for matching strings (with *) and allows to install it

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tomk

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Re: [request] Pacman and Wildcards

And pacman can search by regex - also in the man page.

quarkup

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Re: [request] Pacman and Wildcards

okay, thanks I always use pacman with -S option, that's it.

thanks again.

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tomk

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Re: [request] Pacman and Wildcards

Yes, the regex search function is described in the SYNC OPTIONS section i.e. options for use with -S.