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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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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
Last edited by Xyne (2009-02-07 13:50:14)
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And pacman can search by regex - also in the man page.
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okay, thanks I always use pacman with -S option, that's it.
thanks again.
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Yes, the regex search function is described in the SYNC OPTIONS section i.e. options for use with -S.
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