[Yum-devel] [PATCH] Add a grep command, so _maybe_ people will stop doing: yum list | grep -i foo

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 10:53 -0400, James Antill wrote:
> ---
>  docs/yum.8     |    7 +++++++
>  yumcommands.py |   14 +++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/yum.8 b/docs/yum.8
> index 281bf17..dddc419 100644
> --- a/docs/yum.8
> +++ b/docs/yum.8
> @@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ gnome\-packagekit application\&.
>  .br 
>  .I \fR * list [\&.\&.\&.]
>  .br 
> +.I \fR * grep [\&.\&.\&.]
> +.br 
>  .I \fR * info [\&.\&.\&.]
>  .br 
>  .I \fR * provides  | whatprovides feature1 [feature2] [\&.\&.\&.]
> @@ -149,6 +151,11 @@ Is used to list various information about available
>  packages; more complete details are available in the \fIList Options\fP
>  section below\&.
>  .IP 
> +.IP "\fBgrep\fP"
> +This works by adding '*' to the begining and end of all arguments, and then
> +running the "list" command. This is intended to be a replacement for
> +people doing: "yum list | grep -i".
> +.IP 



This is a bit misleading if only b/c the most common use case of:

yum list | grep something

for me is to match against reponame.

also - since it doesn't use any of the REGULAR EXPRESSION semantics it
feels wrong calling it that.

I think barring the above it would probably be just extra code w/o a
good use.

-sv