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nix search: Disallow empty regex

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Fixes #4739
Fixes #3553 in spirit IMO
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Felix Uhl 2023-11-27 23:09:32 +01:00
parent 17c202b3ea
commit 397cf4e285
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src/nix/search.cc
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@ -67,11 +67,9 @@ struct CmdSearch : InstallableValueCommand, MixJSON
settings.readOnlyMode = true;
evalSettings.enableImportFromDerivation.setDefault(false);
// Empty search string should match all packages
// Use "^" here instead of ".*" due to differences in resulting highlighting
// (see #1893 -- libc++ claims empty search string is not in POSIX grammar)
// Recommend "^" here instead of ".*" due to differences in resulting highlighting
if (res.empty())
res.push_back("^");
throw UsageError("Must provide at least one regex! To match all packages, use '%s'.", "nix search <installable> ^");
std::vector<std::regex> regexes;
std::vector<std::regex> excludeRegexes;

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src/nix/search.md
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@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ R""(
* Show all packages in the `nixpkgs` flake:
```console
# nix search nixpkgs
# nix search nixpkgs ^
* legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.AMB-plugins (0.8.1)
A set of ambisonics ladspa plugins
@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ R""(
* Show all packages in the flake in the current directory:
```console
# nix search
# nix search . ^
```
* Search for Firefox or Chromium:
@ -64,11 +64,16 @@ R""(
`nix search` searches [*installable*](./nix.md#installables) (which can be evaluated, that is, a
flake or Nix expression, but not a store path or store derivation path) for packages whose name or description matches all of the
regular expressions *regex*. For each matching package, It prints the
regular expressions *regex*. For each matching package, It prints the
full attribute name (from the root of the [installable](./nix.md#installables)), the version
and the `meta.description` field, highlighting the substrings that
were matched by the regular expressions. If no regular expressions are
specified, all packages are shown.
were matched by the regular expressions.
To show all packages, use the regular expression `^`. In contrast to `.*`,
it avoids highlighting the entire name and description of every package.
> Note that in this context, `^` is the regex character to match the beginning of a string, *not* the delimiter for
> [selecting a derivation output](@docroot@/command-ref/new-cli/nix.md#derivation-output-selection).
# Flake output attributes