[pacman-dev] [PATCH 2/6] pacsearch: support for multiple search patterns like in pacman search

[Pierre Neidhardt]

On 14-02-03 07:36:32, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> On 02/03/14 at 12:36pm, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> > Previously the different positional arguments formed a single pattern containing
> > spaces. Now each argument is a different pattern to match.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar at gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  contrib/pacsearch.in | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> See commit 380f062be.  This breaks patterns like 'foo|bar'

Right. Any idea how to solve this dilemma?

> > diff --git a/contrib/pacsearch.in b/contrib/pacsearch.in
> > index 71e0107..8e05a1a 100644
> > --- a/contrib/pacsearch.in
> > +++ b/contrib/pacsearch.in
> > @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ sub to_color {
> >  
> >  my %allpkgs = ();
> >  
> > -my $syncout = `pacman -Ss '@ARGV'`;
> > +my $syncout = `pacman -Ss @ARGV`;
> >  # split each sync search entry into its own array entry
> >  my @syncpkgs = split(/\n^(?=\w)/m, $syncout);
> >  # remove the extra \n from the last desc entry
> > @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ foreach $_ (@syncpkgs) {
> >  	$allpkgs{$pkgfields[1]} = [ @pkgfields ];
> >  }
> >  
> > -my $queryout = `pacman -Qs '@ARGV'`;
> > +my $queryout = `pacman -Qs @ARGV`;
> >  # split each querysearch entry into its own array entry
> >  my @querypkgs = split(/\n^(?=\w)/m, $queryout);
> >  # remove the extra \n from the last desc entry
> > -- 
> > 1.8.5.3
> 

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