Listing all packages with --search now impossible

Listing all packages with --search now impossible

[swedebugia]

Hi

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.

Is this intentional?

This means that now users have to know guile to list all packages with 
all the fields. :/
-- 
Cheers
Swedebugia

Re: Listing all packages with --search now impossible

[Ricardo Wurmus]

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

Re: Listing all packages with --search now impossible

[swedebugia]

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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skrev: (25 januari 2019 23:05:51 CET)
>
>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

Thanks!
We should document the regex syntax and an example I think.
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