On 9/23/09, Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Thanks for the correction, Andras -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
