How to use wildcard with pkg?

[Deleted member 63539]

With NetBSD's pkgin, I could do this: pkgin install fcitx* But pkg install fcitx* definitely not work. What is the correct command to install any packages started with fcitx, e.g: fcitx-qt5? And what about any packages in the form of zh-fcitx-*? Thanks.

 

[SirDice]

The shell is going to interpret the asterisk before the arguments are passed to the command. So you need to escape it. You also need to use the -g option:

     -g, --glob
                Treat the package names as shell glob patterns.

pkg-install(8)

 

[a6h]

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