On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 10:10:12PM +1000, Russell Dickenson <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2) "pacman-g2 -S --regex gst-plugins-ugly*" should be "pacman-g2 -S > > --regex gst-plugins-ugly.*, I think. > > The first format seems to work for me, but I am far from an expert in > regular expressions. I have make the correction in the newsletter.
Ok I looked into that and my suggestion was problematic as well. What you really wanted to suggest is: pacman-g2 -S --regex ^gst-plugins-ugly So unless you use ^ or $, basically "-S foo" equals to "-S --regex ^foo$" (or using a bash pattern, "--regex foo" equals to "*foo*").
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