On 03/05/18 20:46, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> On 05/03/18 23:35, Tim wrote:
>> On Mon, 2018-03-05 at 12:55 +1100, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
>>> While it mostly works, this specific command fails:
>>>
>>> $ dnf provides '*/Droid Sans*'
>>
>> Is that first asterisk slash sequence the right characters, in the
>> right order?
>
> Yes, the pattern is a standard wildcard syntax (not a regex). 


Right.  According to the dnf man page

SPECIFYING PROVIDES
       <provide-spec> in command descriptions  means  the  command  operates  on
       packages  providing  the  given spec. This can either be an explicit pro‐
       vide, an implicit provide (i.e. name of the package) or a  file  provide.
       The selection is case-sensitive and globbing is supported.

So, since it is "globbing" one could have used as an alternative

dnf provides '*/Droid?Sans*'

The ? matching any single character, including <space>.

or

dnf provides '*/Droid*Sans*'

With * matching any character including none.

At least those wouldn't have crashed.  :-)

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If simple questions can be answered with a simple google query then why are 
there so
many of them?

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