pkg install and * (regex)

[any_name_you_wish]

Hello,

wouldn't it be nice to be able to replace such long lines

pkg install sdl2_mixer sdl2_image sdl2_net

with something like this? ;-)

pkg install sdl2_*

And to avoid this:

:~ # pkg install sdl2_*
pkg: No match.

How to install all packages at once?

Another example:

pkg install octave-forge-civil-engineering 
pkg install octave-forge-communications
pkg install octave-forge-control
pkg install octave-forge-database
pkg install octave-forge-dataframe
pkg install octave-forge-dicom
pkg install octave-forge-divand
pkg install octave-forge-doctest
pkg install octave-forge-econometrics

and so on.

Just compare it to
pkg install octave-forge-*

 

[any_name_you_wish]

apt-get understands such wildcards ;-)

 

[T-Daemon]

apt-get understands such wildcards ;-)

So does pkg(8).

If you look in pkg-install(8) you will find

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

For the examples above that would be pkg install -g 'octave-forge-*'.

 

[any_name_you_wish]

That's great.

Thank you!