On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 08:32 -0800, Scott Talbot wrote: > On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 19:33 +1300, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote: > > > > Hi, for some reason 'yum update lib*' does nothing while 'yum update > > libp*' does? is there some code in yum to prevent lib* or is it a > > bug? > > I find that escaping all * [ ] ? chars return better results - not sure > why (yeah I know that "officially" bash is replacing them instead of > YUM) anyway try yum update lib\* This is good advice. The reason that lib* may not work is that if there is a file or directory in the current directory with a name that starts with "lib", bash will replace the "lib*" with the name(s) of the one or more files or directories that start with "lib". Yum never sees the * unless bash is unable to find a match in the current directory. So most likely the OP had a file/directory starting with "lib" but not starting with "libp" in the current directory when issuing the yum commands. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
