Public bug reported: Manpage says: Treat pattern as a (perl) regular expression. See perlreref(1) for details. Without this option, pattern is treated as a literal string to search for.
In Perl, the regular expression 'a|b|c' searches for a or b or c. apt-get search -x 'a|b|c' does Possibly related is this broken reimplementation of apt-file: https://github.com/dankamongmen/raptorial Basic properties for | also fail: apt-file search -x 'sbcl|gcc' gives different output from apt-file search -x 'gcc|sbcl'. This issue can be solved in a couple of ways: 1) fix the program 2) fix the documentation 3) introduce a new program that works and is less tied to Perl hacks. ** Affects: apt-file (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1207024 Title: -x option does not work To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-file/+bug/1207024/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
