can i use * or ? for pacman?

turingcat · 2008-12-25 02:54:22

can i use pacman -Qi gnome* to query all of packages begined with gnome?some times i can not remember the exactlly names of packages~
i try to use * but failed.how to do it?

just from ubuntu to arch~really a newer~thx for help!

Pudge · 2008-12-25 03:10:17

Hi turingcat.

The command pacman -Q will list every package installed on your computer. Simply pipe the output of this command to grep like this

$ pacman -Q | grep -i "gnome"

and it will list every package with "gnome" in it. The pipe command | allows you to send the output of one command to the input of another command. In this case, the output of the pacman -Q command is sent to the input of the grep command. The grep command is a very powerful search command and well worth spending some time learning it. See man grep for more options for grep, such as -i for ignore case, and other useful features. By using the -i ignore case parameter, this will find all instances of gnome, or Gnome, or gnOme, etc.

HTH

Pudge

Last edited by Pudge (2008-12-25 03:27:27)

Allan · 2008-12-25 03:35:22

Oldest bug in our bug tracker: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/1561 Implementing that should implement it for the -Q option too

turingcat · 2008-12-25 04:37:43

i know that use "|" and grep ,but i thought that should be a basic feature~
thx ~~

Allan · 2008-12-25 05:12:39

Patches welcome.

Xyne · 2008-12-25 06:51:16

pacman -Qi $(pacman -Qqs gnome)

(assuming you want the info output)

Last edited by Xyne (2008-12-25 06:51:56)

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#1 2008-12-25 02:54:22

can i use * or ? for pacman?

#2 2008-12-25 03:10:17

Re: can i use * or ? for pacman?

#3 2008-12-25 03:35:22

Re: can i use * or ? for pacman?

#4 2008-12-25 04:37:43

Re: can i use * or ? for pacman?

#5 2008-12-25 05:12:39

Re: can i use * or ? for pacman?

#6 2008-12-25 06:51:16

Re: can i use * or ? for pacman?

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