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| synopsis | prs |
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| Introduction of `--regex` and `--all` in `nix profile remove` and `nix profile upgrade` | 10166 |
Previously the command-line arguments for nix profile remove and nix profile upgrade matched the package entries using regular expression.
For instance:
nix profile remove '.*vim.*'
This would remove all packages that contain vim in their name.
In most cases, only singular package names were used to remove and upgrade packages. Mixing this with regular expressions sometimes lead to unintended behavior. For instance, python3.1 could match python311.
To avoid unintended behavior, the arguments are now only matching exact names.
Matching using regular expressions is still possible by using the new --regex flag:
nix profile remove --regex '.*vim.*'
One of the most useful cases for using regular expressions was to upgrade all packages. This was previously accomplished by:
nix profile upgrade '.*'
With the introduction of the --all flag, this now becomes more straightforward:
nix profile upgrade --all