James Wilkinson wrote: >> # yum install kde\*devel > > Timothy Murphy wrote: >> >> As a matter of interest, does one have to "escape" the '*' as above? >> I haven't seen that in the yum documentation I've read. > Quoting the asterisk means that the shell won't interpret it, and it > will get handed over to yum. Yum *does* know what to do with it. > > The moral of this and various other stories is that if you don't want > the shell to interpret an asterisk, you quote it. OK, thanks, point noted. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure I have seen examples of yum commands posted which included unescaped *'s. I guess the posters assumed the reader knew that esapement was required ... -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
