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#320550: aptitude: 'search' cannot recognize "+" character(s),
which was filed against the aptitude package.
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From: Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Bug#320550: aptitude: 'search' cannot recognize "+" character(s)
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 23:54:41 -0700
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The expressions you enter when searching packages are regular expressions=
=2E =20
You need to put backslashes in front of metacharacters like '+' and '.' in=
=20
order to search for them:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aptitude search 'g\+\+'
p g++ - The GNU C++ compiler
(...more results snipped...)
I apologize for the inconvenience, but as very few package names contain=
=20
metacharacters (g++ is the only prominent example I can think of), I felt=20
that this compromise was better than forcing people to enter a special esca=
pe=20
sequence just to use regular expressions.
Daniel
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/------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----------------=
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