On Saturday 20 January 2007 18:46, James wrote: > Daniel Iliev <danny <at> ilievnet.com> writes: > > eix -C -c -n media-video | grep -i dvd > > That's a pretty cool search string. > If I wanted to search the entire tree, why does this not work? > > eix -C -c -n * | grep -i dvd > > eix does not expand wildcards for matches?
It would be helpful if you would take just one look at `man eix` to see what the arguments do. -n isn't necessary since eix will automatically disable colors when it detects a pipe (the | sign). -c just makes the output more compact. -C means you're specifying a category but * isn't a category.. Furthermore if you type the above command (assuming you're using bash) eix doesn't get an * at all because bash expands it before ever executing the command. Try typing `echo *` to see what bash expands it to. But no, even if you escaped or quoted the * properly eix doesn't expand it. But if you don't use --exact it always assumes wildcards. Hence `eix -C -c video` results in the same output as `eix -C -c media-video`. And `eix -c` outputs everything in the tree. Instead of the silly grep above I'd just search descriptions with -S though... -- Bo Andresen
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