On 09-09-23 04:15:14, Andras Simon wrote: > No. Neither are bash commands, but you issue them in a shell (which, > in your case, is probably bash). Since the shell sees your command > and its arguments first, it can and does manipulate them. One thing > it does with them is attempt to > expand special characters, such as * and ?; so > unless you escape those, yum or rm will never see them, only the > result(s) of the expansion , unless there was no match, in which case bash will pass on the "*", making the yum command depend on the contents of the current directory (see `man bash` "Pathname Expansion" and the various *glob options) > . 'rm *' will remove all files in the > current directory, but 'rm \*' will only remove the one whose name is > '*'. See any intro to unix in general and shells in particular. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
