To Use Regular Expressions

The Find feature supports regular expressions and pattern matching wildcards.

Sun Update Connection – Enterprise assumes that all search strings might be partial strings. You do not need a wildcard for “any characters”. For example, if you search for gimp, the results include gimp, gimp-print, and xsane-gimp.

If you want to restrict the default behavior, to search only for packages that begin with gimp, use: ^gimp. The carrot (outside of brackets) indicates that the string must be the beginning of the pattern.

• [char] – Find any of the characters in the brackets.

  To find packages dealing with markup languages, either xml or html, search for [xht]ml.

• [^char] – Find any of the characters not in the brackets.

  If you want to find http packages, but do not want the list of httpd, search for http[^d]

• [char-char] – Find a range of characters.

  A regular expression of c[a-u]p results in a list that includes cups, cdparanoia-libs, cipe, and libcap.