On 6 March 2013 20:17, David Kalnischkies <[email protected]> wrote:
> Theoretically
> apt-get remove ".*:*"
> (quotes so your shell isn't trying to expand it) would remove every
> package from your system.
> apt-get install ".*"
> on the other hand would install every available package (in the
> "best" architecture) on your system.
>
> (apt-get uses regex, not globbing)
>
Right. These are the correct commands to use to pass such a wildcard
to apt, otherwise the shell will interpret ‘*’ in it's own way and
replace it with specific file names.
With OPs command it never receives the ‘*’ and that is not a valid
regex anyway. So this is not a bug in apt.
status invalid
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Invalid
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