[Bug 1942623] Re: [Wishlist] systemctl CLI UI should allow glob expansion throughout the service name

[Facundo Ciccioli]

** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

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Title:
  [Wishlist] systemctl CLI UI should allow glob expansion throughout the
  service name

Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  When attempting to craft a command to query and/or restart all
  services with name 'something-*-else', such as 'neutron-*-agent' to
  match [neutron-l3-agent, neutron-openvswitch-agent, and neutron-dhcp-
  agent], I've found that no services are returned from globs in the
  middle of the string.  The only supported glob seems to be a * at the
  end of the service name. Also, single character globbing with ? is not
  honored (as in the last example).

  To provide an example, I expect each of these commands to return the
  dbus.socket and dbus.service, but only 'systemctl status dbu*' shows
  the proper return.

  drew at grimoire:~$ systemctl status dbus
  ● dbus.service - D-Bus System Message Bus
       Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dbus.service; static)
       Active: active (running) since Mon 2021-08-30 23:41:27 CDT; 3 days ago
  TriggeredBy: ● dbus.socket
         Docs: man:dbus-daemon(1)
     Main PID: 1357 (dbus-daemon)
        Tasks: 1 (limit: 57290)
       Memory: 4.9M
       CGroup: /system.slice/dbus.service
               └─1357 @dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only

  Warning: some journal files were not opened due to insufficient permissions.
  drew at grimoire:~$ systemctl status *bus
  drew at grimoire:~$ systemctl status '*bus'
  drew at grimoire:~$ systemctl status 'dbu*'
  ● dbus.service - D-Bus System Message Bus
       Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dbus.service; static)
       Active: active (running) since Mon 2021-08-30 23:41:27 CDT; 3 days ago
  TriggeredBy: ● dbus.socket
         Docs: man:dbus-daemon(1)
     Main PID: 1357 (dbus-daemon)
        Tasks: 1 (limit: 57290)
       Memory: 5.0M
       CGroup: /system.slice/dbus.service
               └─1357 @dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only

  Warning: some journal files were not opened due to insufficient permissions.
  ● dbus.socket - D-Bus System Message Bus Socket
       Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/dbus.socket; static)
       Active: active (running) since Mon 2021-08-30 23:41:27 CDT; 3 days ago
     Triggers: ● dbus.service
       Listen: /run/dbus/system_bus_socket (Stream)
  drew at grimoire:~$ systemctl status 'db*s'
  drew at grimoire:~$ systemctl status 'dbu?'

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