Hi Mark -- You said: > in response to: > >Hi Mark -- > >You asked: > >> because I'd said: > >> >It would be helpful if you could tell us what version of the packages > >> >you have installed. For example, if you would run this commands: > >> > > >> > dpkg -l *tex* > >> > >> I noticed that this doesn't work under tcsh, but does work under > >> bash. Is there a difference between how the * character is treated > >> under the two shells? > > > > > >What I'd written was actually not right for either shell. > > > >I should have written: > > > > dpkg -l "*tex*" > > > >The problem is that without the quotes, the shell expands the argument > >first, before handing it to dpkg. If there's a file in your current > >directory with a name that matches *tex*, then that file, and only that > >file, is fed to dpkg. This is not what's intended of course. > > > >So I tried the correct usage (with the quotes) under tcsh and it worked > >fine. > > But the interesting thing is that dpkg -l *tex* actually _works_ when > run under bash, leading me to think that the bash shell doesn't expand > the argument first. > Are you sure you tried dpkg -l *tex* in a directory where you know there's a file whose name matches the pattern *tex*, and whose name is not that of a debian package? On my system both bash and tcsh behaved the same way.
Susan
