On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 22:58 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > Claude Jones wrote: > > > >> I did a rpm -qa | grep kde-il8n and now I have a long list of the > >> il8n's which I want to delete. I thought I could just rpm -e > >> kde-il8n* but it doesn't work. I've read man pages and searched for a > >> solution - I'm sure it's staring me in the face - could someone tell > >> me what I'm omitting? > >> > >> > > The Bash shell gets greedy here and interprets * before the RPM > > command receives it so you use the following instead which uses \ to > > tell the shell to ignore it (ie) an escape sequence > > > > rpm -e kde-i18n\* > > > oops. Got that wrong. try this one instead > > rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep kde-il8n) Or even: # rpm -e $(rpm -qa kde-il8n\*) Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
