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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/src/nix/search.cc b/src/nix/search.cc
index 87cdb2d7e..5ccf1b7cf 100644
--- a/src/nix/search.cc
+++ b/src/nix/search.cc
@@ -78,12 +78,15 @@ 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();
- bool first = true;
-
auto jsonOut = json ? std::make_unique<JSONObject>(std::cout) : nullptr;
auto sToplevel = state->symbols.create("_toplevel");
@@ -91,6 +94,8 @@ struct CmdSearch : SourceExprCommand, MixJSON
bool fromCache = false;
+ std::map<std::string, std::string> results;
+
std::function<void(Value *, std::string, bool, JSONObject *)> doExpr;
doExpr = [&](Value * v, std::string attrPath, bool toplevel, JSONObject * cache) {
@@ -138,10 +143,7 @@ struct CmdSearch : SourceExprCommand, MixJSON
jsonElem.attr("description", description);
} else {
- if (!first) std::cout << "\n";
- first = false;
-
- std::cout << fmt(
+ results[attrPath] = fmt(
"Attribute name: %s\n"
"Package name: %s\n"
"Version: %s\n"
@@ -237,9 +239,12 @@ struct CmdSearch : SourceExprCommand, MixJSON
throw Error("error writing to %s", tmpFile);
}
- if (rename(tmpFile.c_str(), jsonCacheFileName.c_str()) == -1)
+ if (writeCache && rename(tmpFile.c_str(), jsonCacheFileName.c_str()) == -1)
throw SysError("cannot rename '%s' to '%s'", tmpFile, jsonCacheFileName);
}
+
+ for (auto el : results) std::cout << el.second << "\n";
+
}
};