From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Listing all packages with --search now impossible
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 23:05:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ef90v1ds.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9ec3d20a-b40f-e164-5c84-fcdc7cc026bd@riseup.net>
Hi swedebugia,
<swedebugia@riseup.net> writes:
> Yesterday when I played around with guix I noticed that the default
> behavior of
> $ guix package --search
> guix package: error: invalid argument: Missing required argument after
> `--search'
>
> has changed recently from showing all packages to now showing none.
>
> also:
>
> $ guix package --search *
> guix package: error: invalid argument: Missing required argument after
> `--search'
>
> This is a bug. "*" should match everything.
This is not a bug.
The argument must be separated from the option with an “=”. The second
problem is that “*” is not a regular expression but a shell glob
pattern. You need to provide a regular expression. This works:
guix package --search=.*
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-25 22:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-25 21:22 Listing all packages with --search now impossible swedebugia
2019-01-25 22:05 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2019-01-26 8:34 ` swedebugia
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