[pacman] what is the regex standard of pacman -Ss?

jinleileiking · 2011-11-29 15:29:23

Can -Ss search only tool's name?

Thanks

karol · 2011-11-29 15:41:10

Have you tried expac?
'expac %n -S | grep <name>'

Edit: 'pacman -Sqs <name> | grep <name>' works too.

Last edited by karol (2011-11-29 15:44:13)

jinleileiking · 2011-11-29 15:45:17

@karol what about the regex standart for pacman ?

karol · 2011-11-29 15:47:52

jinleileiking wrote:

@karol what about the regex standart for pacman ?

pacman searches the whole output of 'pacman -Si' / 'pacman -Qi' so grepping the output is a way of limiting search to e.g. just the name.
You can check the source code to see how it does it exactly.

jinleileiking · 2011-11-30 05:49:31

But in man 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.

jinleileiking · 2011-11-30 05:50:03

karol wrote:

Have you tried expac?
'expac %n -S | grep <name>'

Edit: 'pacman -Sqs <name> | grep <name>' works too.

pacman -Sqs is a better solution

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