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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: Listing all packages with --search now impossible
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 23:05:51 +0100
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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 =E2=80=9C=3D=E2=80=
=9D.  The second
problem is that =E2=80=9C*=E2=80=9D is not a regular expression but a shell=
 glob
pattern.  You need to provide a regular expression.  This works:

    guix package --search=3D.*

--=20
Ricardo