>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. Mark.
