Jonathan Dieter wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 16:59 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> Jos Vos wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 08:16:36AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >>> >>>> And you can do it simply by... >>>> >>>> rpm2cpio whatever-package.src.rpm | cpio -i *spec >>> Correct, but better quote it (use '*.spec'), as there might be files >>> matching *spec in your current directory and then it mostly won't >>> work as expected ;-). >> I don't think the quotes are needed, although they couldn't hurt. The *spec >> is a parameter to cpio telling it what files to extract so I don't think >> having another .spec in your directory will hurt. In fact, I tried it both >> quoted and unquoted with another spec file in my current directory and the >> results are the same. Care to share your concern? >> > I think the concern is that if you have foo.spec in your current > directory and you try doing: > > rpm2cpio bar.src.rpm | cpio -i *spec > > bash will turn *spec into foo.spec, which cpio will then try to extract > from the archive (which wouldn't exist in this example). > > If you don't have any .spec files in the current directory, bash will > just send *spec to cpio, which will handle it the expected way. Ooops... You know you are right. I had the above as an alias and didn't check the alias to notice that indeed it I had quoted it, as a variable. Duh....
