On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 16:08 +0000, g wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > <snip> > > Leaving out the '\' will cause the Shell to expand the '*' in the > > context of the current directory, which is almost certainly *not* what > > you want. > > as i would have thought. until i tried without. Well, to be precise: if *kdict does not match anything in the current directory, then the Shell will pass *kdict as the argument to yum, which is exactly what happens when you use \*kdict. OTOH if *kdict does match something, then that's what gets passed as one or more arguments to yum. That's rarely what you want. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
