gilpel@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>>> If you don't need them, just say >>>> yum erase m17n\* >>> >>> Yeah, I suppose with yum they wouldn't come back. But what is the >>> backslash for? Can't find any backslash in the yum man page. >> >> The backslash is to prevent the shell from expanding the asterisk and >> passing on the asterisk to yum literally. Its called escaping a special >> character. Try looking for escaping characters in the bash man page. > > So, if I write > > rm m17n* > > it will remove all instances of m17n... > > but, because yum is not a bash command, the * has to be escaped? I may be wrong - if so, I hope I will be corrected - but I don't think you _have_ to escape the *. It is just that if you don't do that, and there happens to be a file m17n... in the current directory it will assume you mean that. If there is no such file "yum ... m17n*" will work fine. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
