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Greg Woods wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 19:43 +0100, John Horne wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Does something a bit more generic like 'yum list *td*' show you a list
of installed and available packages? It works for me on CentOS 5.2,
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AAAUGH! I got it figured out. I was in the freeradius-server directory
when I tried this, so it turns out that "libtool*" and "*tdl*" actually
match directory names, so bash wasn't passing the wildcard to yum.</pre>
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Wildcards passed to commands must always be quoted or escaped otherwise
the shell will process it. Yum info is a classic case of needing to do
this.<br>
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<pre wrap=""> Maybe
csh wasn't so wrong to always assume an unquoted wildcard meant you were
file globbing. Cost me a couple hours of wasted time (not to mention
looking like a moron on the list :-)</pre>
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Nah! We've all done things like this more times than we care to admit.
Welcome to the club, your turn to bring refreshments next time :-)<br>
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John Dennis <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jdennis@redhat.com"><jdennis@redhat.com></a>
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