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Aptitude regex engine

.everyoneloves__top-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__mid-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__bot-mid-leaderboard:empty{ margin-bottom:0;
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I was trying to lookup the versions of libdb in the debian archives with something like that:

$ aptitude search '~S~ndev$(~nlibdb~(d~|-~)!~v~rnative)'

which didn't work as expected so I changed the search pattern for 'digit or dash' to a (malformed?) bracket pattern

$ aptitude search '~S~ndev$(~nlibdb[[:digit:]-]!~v~rnative)'

which did the job.

Curious about the engine under the hood I tried backreferencing

$ aptitude search '~n~([[:digit:]]~)1>~rnative'

which also worked and led me to the conclusion that it must be GNU ERE.

So I have two questions now:

1. Does aptitude use GNU EREs?


2. Is there any way to get aptitude to accept PCREs?

I hope someone can clarify this for me.

regular-expression aptitude

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asked Aug 29 '13 at 18:06

RogerRoger

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  Apparently aptitude does not understand character class d , but you could use [0-9] or [[:digit:]], instead.
  
  – jarno
  14 hours ago
  
  
  

  
  
  
  


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  What is tne meaning of $( ... ) in command?
  
  – jarno
  14 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

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I was trying to lookup the versions of libdb in the debian archives with something like that:

$ aptitude search '~S~ndev$(~nlibdb~(d~|-~)!~v~rnative)'

which didn't work as expected so I changed the search pattern for 'digit or dash' to a (malformed?) bracket pattern

$ aptitude search '~S~ndev$(~nlibdb[[:digit:]-]!~v~rnative)'

which did the job.

Curious about the engine under the hood I tried backreferencing

$ aptitude search '~n~([[:digit:]]~)1>~rnative'

which also worked and led me to the conclusion that it must be GNU ERE.

So I have two questions now:

1. Does aptitude use GNU EREs?


2. Is there any way to get aptitude to accept PCREs?

I hope someone can clarify this for me.

regular-expression aptitude

share|improve this question

asked Aug 29 '13 at 18:06

RogerRoger

162

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Apparently aptitude does not understand character class d , but you could use [0-9] or [[:digit:]], instead.
  
  – jarno
  14 hours ago
  
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  What is tne meaning of $( ... ) in command?
  
  – jarno
  14 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

I was trying to lookup the versions of libdb in the debian archives with something like that:

$ aptitude search '~S~ndev$(~nlibdb~(d~|-~)!~v~rnative)'

which didn't work as expected so I changed the search pattern for 'digit or dash' to a (malformed?) bracket pattern

$ aptitude search '~S~ndev$(~nlibdb[[:digit:]-]!~v~rnative)'

which did the job.

Curious about the engine under the hood I tried backreferencing

$ aptitude search '~n~([[:digit:]]~)1>~rnative'

which also worked and led me to the conclusion that it must be GNU ERE.

So I have two questions now:

1. Does aptitude use GNU EREs?


2. Is there any way to get aptitude to accept PCREs?

I hope someone can clarify this for me.

regular-expression aptitude

share|improve this question

asked Aug 29 '13 at 18:06

RogerRoger

162

$ aptitude search '~S~ndev$(~nlibdb~(d~|-~)!~v~rnative)'

$ aptitude search '~S~ndev$(~nlibdb[[:digit:]-]!~v~rnative)'

$ aptitude search '~n~([[:digit:]]~)1>~rnative'

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asked Aug 29 '13 at 18:06

RogerRoger

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RogerRoger

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asked Aug 29 '13 at 18:06

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Well, man aptitude is full of lines like this:

(see the section “Search Patterns” in the aptitude reference manual)

There is no such section in the man page on my Debian and nor could I find it in the info page (which just gave me the same man page). Searching google found this, which explains that

Most textual searches (for package names, descriptions, etc) are performed using case-insensitive regular expressions. This means that you must backslash-escape regular expression metacharacters [12] in searches (for instance, to find “g++”, you should use the pattern “g++”).

[12] Regular expression metacharacters include: “+”, “-”, “.”, “(”, “)”, “|”, “[”, “]”, “^”, “$”, and “?”. Note that some of these are also aptitude metacharacters, so if you want to type (for instance) a literal “|”, it must be double-escaped: “~|”.

And "Regular expressions" are a broken link to a page called tao_regexps.

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edited 14 hours ago

answered Aug 29 '13 at 18:39

terdon♦terdon

134k33269449

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  I know. The site you found is probably the best source out there. I use it often for a quick lookup of search patterns link. It's still vague on REs there. Anyway, thx for the reply.
  
  – Roger
  Aug 29 '13 at 19:49
  
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @Roger you're welcome.Just so you know, the "standard" way of expressing thanks in the stack exchange network is to upvote an answer if it helped and accept it if it actually answers your question.
  
  – terdon♦
  Aug 29 '13 at 19:51
  

  
  
  
  


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  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  ps: on my system (mint/ubuntu) there's a copy of said site in /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README - I assume it's there on debian too
  
  – Roger
  Aug 29 '13 at 19:52
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @Roger thanks, I did not know that. Oh and yes, that site is a little vague but there is nothing vague about BREs, just google "Basic Regular Expressions" or go through the gritty details here. They are one of the major known REGEX types and the one most commonly used by *nix programs.
  
  – terdon♦
  Aug 30 '13 at 2:33
  
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Aptitude is not using POSIX Basic Regular Expressions. E.g '+' is not metacharacter in POSIX BRE, but is special in aptitudes patterns.
  
  – jarno
  14 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

 | 
show 1 more comment

0

What is wrong with:

aptitude search '?version(CURRENT) ^libdb[1-9] ! -'

As simple as possible and as complex as needed.

Best Regards

share|improve this answer

answered Jan 29 '17 at 8:15

DevDev

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Well, man aptitude is full of lines like this:

(see the section “Search Patterns” in the aptitude reference manual)

There is no such section in the man page on my Debian and nor could I find it in the info page (which just gave me the same man page). Searching google found this, which explains that

Most textual searches (for package names, descriptions, etc) are performed using case-insensitive regular expressions. This means that you must backslash-escape regular expression metacharacters [12] in searches (for instance, to find “g++”, you should use the pattern “g++”).

[12] Regular expression metacharacters include: “+”, “-”, “.”, “(”, “)”, “|”, “[”, “]”, “^”, “$”, and “?”. Note that some of these are also aptitude metacharacters, so if you want to type (for instance) a literal “|”, it must be double-escaped: “~|”.

And "Regular expressions" are a broken link to a page called tao_regexps.

share|improve this answer

edited 14 hours ago

answered Aug 29 '13 at 18:39

terdon♦terdon

134k33269449

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I know. The site you found is probably the best source out there. I use it often for a quick lookup of search patterns link. It's still vague on REs there. Anyway, thx for the reply.
  
  – Roger
  Aug 29 '13 at 19:49
  
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @Roger you're welcome.Just so you know, the "standard" way of expressing thanks in the stack exchange network is to upvote an answer if it helped and accept it if it actually answers your question.
  
  – terdon♦
  Aug 29 '13 at 19:51
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  ps: on my system (mint/ubuntu) there's a copy of said site in /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README - I assume it's there on debian too
  
  – Roger
  Aug 29 '13 at 19:52
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @Roger thanks, I did not know that. Oh and yes, that site is a little vague but there is nothing vague about BREs, just google "Basic Regular Expressions" or go through the gritty details here. They are one of the major known REGEX types and the one most commonly used by *nix programs.
  
  – terdon♦
  Aug 30 '13 at 2:33
  
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Aptitude is not using POSIX Basic Regular Expressions. E.g '+' is not metacharacter in POSIX BRE, but is special in aptitudes patterns.
  
  – jarno
  14 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

 | 
show 1 more comment

1

Well, man aptitude is full of lines like this:

(see the section “Search Patterns” in the aptitude reference manual)

There is no such section in the man page on my Debian and nor could I find it in the info page (which just gave me the same man page). Searching google found this, which explains that

Most textual searches (for package names, descriptions, etc) are performed using case-insensitive regular expressions. This means that you must backslash-escape regular expression metacharacters [12] in searches (for instance, to find “g++”, you should use the pattern “g++”).

[12] Regular expression metacharacters include: “+”, “-”, “.”, “(”, “)”, “|”, “[”, “]”, “^”, “$”, and “?”. Note that some of these are also aptitude metacharacters, so if you want to type (for instance) a literal “|”, it must be double-escaped: “~|”.

And "Regular expressions" are a broken link to a page called tao_regexps.

share|improve this answer

edited 14 hours ago

answered Aug 29 '13 at 18:39

terdon♦terdon

134k33269449

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I know. The site you found is probably the best source out there. I use it often for a quick lookup of search patterns link. It's still vague on REs there. Anyway, thx for the reply.
  
  – Roger
  Aug 29 '13 at 19:49
  
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @Roger you're welcome.Just so you know, the "standard" way of expressing thanks in the stack exchange network is to upvote an answer if it helped and accept it if it actually answers your question.
  
  – terdon♦
  Aug 29 '13 at 19:51
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  ps: on my system (mint/ubuntu) there's a copy of said site in /usr/share/doc/aptitude/README - I assume it's there on debian too
  
  – Roger
  Aug 29 '13 at 19:52
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @Roger thanks, I did not know that. Oh and yes, that site is a little vague but there is nothing vague about BREs, just google "Basic Regular Expressions" or go through the gritty details here. They are one of the major known REGEX types and the one most commonly used by *nix programs.
  
  – terdon♦
  Aug 30 '13 at 2:33
  
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Aptitude is not using POSIX Basic Regular Expressions. E.g '+' is not metacharacter in POSIX BRE, but is special in aptitudes patterns.
  
  – jarno
  14 hours ago
  

  
  
  
  

 | 
show 1 more comment

Well, man aptitude is full of lines like this:

(see the section “Search Patterns” in the aptitude reference manual)

There is no such section in the man page on my Debian and nor could I find it in the info page (which just gave me the same man page). Searching google found this, which explains that

Most textual searches (for package names, descriptions, etc) are performed using case-insensitive regular expressions. This means that you must backslash-escape regular expression metacharacters [12] in searches (for instance, to find “g++”, you should use the pattern “g++”).

[12] Regular expression metacharacters include: “+”, “-”, “.”, “(”, “)”, “|”, “[”, “]”, “^”, “$”, and “?”. Note that some of these are also aptitude metacharacters, so if you want to type (for instance) a literal “|”, it must be double-escaped: “~|”.

And "Regular expressions" are a broken link to a page called tao_regexps.

share|improve this answer

edited 14 hours ago

answered Aug 29 '13 at 18:39

terdon♦terdon

134k33269449

share|improve this answer

edited 14 hours ago

answered Aug 29 '13 at 18:39

terdon♦terdon

134k33269449

answered Aug 29 '13 at 18:39

terdon♦terdon

134k33269449

answered Aug 29 '13 at 18:39

terdon♦terdon

134k33269449

0

What is wrong with:

aptitude search '?version(CURRENT) ^libdb[1-9] ! -'

As simple as possible and as complex as needed.

Best Regards

share|improve this answer

answered Jan 29 '17 at 8:15

DevDev

1

add a comment | 

0

What is wrong with:

aptitude search '?version(CURRENT) ^libdb[1-9] ! -'

As simple as possible and as complex as needed.

Best Regards

share|improve this answer

answered Jan 29 '17 at 8:15

DevDev

1

add a comment | 

What is wrong with:

aptitude search '?version(CURRENT) ^libdb[1-9] ! -'

As simple as possible and as complex as needed.

Best Regards

share|improve this answer

answered Jan 29 '17 at 8:15

DevDev

1

aptitude search '?version(CURRENT) ^libdb[1-9] ! -'

share|improve this answer

answered Jan 29 '17 at 8:15

DevDev

1

answered Jan 29 '17 at 8:15

DevDev

1

answered Jan 29 '17 at 8:15

DevDev

1