snap list reports no snaps installed when invalid name passed

[Robert Ancell]

From comment #3:

  $ snap list notasnap
  notasnap is not installed but is available in the store.
  Try 'snap install notasnap' or 'snap info notasnap'.

  $ snap list foobar
  foobar is not installed, and not available in the store.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Looking at the snapd code the error is displayed if the number of snaps that match the supplied name(s) is zero.

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

Good catch.

 status: confirmed

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

I'd suggest the following:

  $ snap list notasnap
  notasnap is not installed but is available in the store.
  Try 'snap install notasnap' or 'snap info notasnap'.

  $ snap list foobar
  foobar is not installed, and not available in the store.

Mark

[John Lenton (chipaca)]

bug lp:1607717 marked as duplicate of this one, even though that one is fix committed, because the ux described here isn't implemented yet:

$ snap list
Name Version Rev Developer Notes
http 4.66920160910 18 chipaca -
ubuntu-core 16.04+20160531.11-56 122 canonical -
$ snap list hello-world
error: no matching snaps installed
$