Andras Simon wrote: > On 9/23/09, gil...@altern.org <gil...@altern.org> wrote: >>> gil...@altern.org wrote:
>> So, if I write >> >> rm m17n* >> >> it will remove all instances of m17n... >> >> but, because yum is not a bash command, the * has to be escaped? > > No. Neither are bash commands Well, in my book, rm is a bash command. It might not be exclusive to the bash shell, but it definitely is a bash command. Otherwise, maybe you could tell us what a bash command is to you? http://ss64.com/bash/ > 'rm *' will remove all files in the > current directory, but 'rm \*' will only remove the one whose name is > '*'. See any intro to unix in general and shells in particular. This much I know. What I didn't know what what would be the effect of escaping * with yum. I finally removed all the m17n paraphernalia with a plain yum erase m17n* Thanks to all! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
