On Sat, November 8, 2008 1:02 pm, Raj Mathur said: > On Friday 07 Nov 2008, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> Subhanjan Ghosh wrote: >> > One of my Linux box(RHEL4u6) is not showing any output of the >> > command *rpm qa.* >> >> the 'a' in your command line means 'all', you would not normally have >> another parameter after that. > > AFAIR newer versions of RPM permit commands of the form: > > rpm -qa fileutil\* > > to display all rpms whose name begins with ``fileutil''. I could be > wrong though, since I haven't used rpm in ages.
Well, after testing on my system, the back slash isn't really required I guess, considering simply putting an asterisk gives you the same result. Following are some of the outputs (Note the first and the 2nd examples): ---------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> rpm -qa amarok* amarok-1.4.10-100.pm.1 amarok-xine-1.4.10-100.pm.1 amarok-packman-1.4.10-100.pm.1 amarok-yauap-1.4.10-100.pm.1 amarok-libvisual-1.4.10-100.pm.1 amarok-lang-1.4.10-100.pm.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> rpm -qa amarok\* amarok-1.4.10-100.pm.1 amarok-xine-1.4.10-100.pm.1 amarok-packman-1.4.10-100.pm.1 amarok-yauap-1.4.10-100.pm.1 amarok-libvisual-1.4.10-100.pm.1 amarok-lang-1.4.10-100.pm.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> rpm -qa amarok amarok-1.4.10-100.pm.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> rpm -qa | grep amarok amarok-1.4.10-100.pm.1 amarok-xine-1.4.10-100.pm.1 amarok-packman-1.4.10-100.pm.1 amarok-yauap-1.4.10-100.pm.1 amarok-libvisual-1.4.10-100.pm.1 kde4-amarok-1.90-4.7 amarok-lang-1.4.10-100.pm.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ------------------- Best, Atanu _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
