-x option does not work
Bug #1207024 reported by
Johan
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apt-file (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
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:/
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.
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