Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: <snip>
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.
have a look at my 'captures'. only diff i can see is that 1st has '\', 2nd does not. all of rest looks same to me. [geo@argosyiayia Desktop]$ ll kdi* -rw-rw-r-- 1 geo geo 1675 Jul 21 17:12 kdisc1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 geo geo 1674 Jul 21 17:06 kdisc2 [geo@argosyiayia Desktop]$ diff kdisc1 kdisc2 1c1 < [root@argosyiayia geo-sl]# yum whatprovides \*kdict --- > [root@argosyiayia geo-sl]# yum whatprovides *kdict [geo@argosyiayia Desktop]$ and 'diff' concurs. -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
