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Re: Listing all packages with --search now impossible
From: |
Ricardo Wurmus |
Subject: |
Re: Listing all packages with --search now impossible |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Jan 2019 23:05:51 +0100 |
User-agent: |
mu4e 1.0; emacs 26.1 |
Hi swedebugia,
<address@hidden> 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