Solved Install all pkgs that contains *someting* in the name ...

[Dogers]

Greetings to everyone.

I wish to know if there is a way to install all pkg that contains some String like for instance : "zh-" as a filter. I know that I can do that on Debian based linux distros with commands like that :

sudo apt-get install zh-* = will install all packages starting with "zh-".

So I wanted to know if there a way to achieve this on FreeBSD 12.1 by using pkg, or if I need to list all package manually before installing every-time.

Thank you very much in advance !

 

[zirias@]

For very flexible querying of packages, pkg-query(8) (local) and pkg-rquery(8) (remote) are your friends. The rest is some basic shellscripting:
pkg rquery -e '%n~zh-*' %n | xargs pkg install should do it.