On 4 May 2010 23:58, Miklos Vajna <[email protected]> wrote: > 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*").
VMiklos, Thanks. I will publish this as an errata item in newsletter issue 63. For anyone who regularly reads the newsletter but doesn't subscribe to the git commits ML, it will seem like this is my first error. Let's keep the fact that it's *not* my first error a secret between us, OK? ;) May you always be Frugal, Russell Dickenson (AKA phayz) _______________________________________________ Frugalware-devel mailing list [email protected] http://frugalware.org/mailman/listinfo/frugalware-devel
