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-rw-r--r--src/nix/search.cc5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/nix/search.cc b/src/nix/search.cc
index 1adde28cb..009dfae9c 100644
--- a/src/nix/search.cc
+++ b/src/nix/search.cc
@@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ struct CmdSearch : SourceExprCommand, MixJSON
{
settings.readOnlyMode = true;
+ // 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)
+ if (re.empty()) re = "^";
+
std::regex regex(re, std::regex::extended | std::regex::icase);
auto state = getEvalState();