Thanks very much everybody for the answers. knute... >On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 01:57:22PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> >>> If you normally run "yum update" you can change your procedure to simply >> >>> run "yum --exclude=dovecot* update". >> >> >> >> Don't you have to say "yum --exclude=dovecot\* update" ? >> > >> > I've never had to escape the * in this situation. YMMV, >> >> I stand corrected. >> I assumed the shell would try to expand the "*", > >Yes, it will try to expand the '*'. > >You can make the above command fail deliberately, of course. > >Try this: > >$ touch -- --exclude=dovecot-xyzzy >$ yum --exclude=dovecot* update > >This will try to update dovecot, since the shell metacharacter will indeed >be expanded. > >To remove the weirdly named file, do: > >$ rm -- --exclude=dovecot-xyzzy > >-- >Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids: >Sylvan Associates, Inc. | Laura Isabella Sylvan, | Katherine Yelena (8/8/89) >http://sylvan.com/~kayvan | my beautiful Queen. | Robin Gregory (2/28/92) > -- Knute Johnson Molon Labe...
