gilpel@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Andras Simon wrote:
On 9/23/09, gilpel@xxxxxxxxxx <gilpel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
gilpel@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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?
No. Neither are bash commands
Well, in my book, rm is a bash command. It might not be exclusive to the
bash shell, but it definitely is a bash command. Otherwise, maybe you
could tell us what a bash command is to you?
"rm" is a command in /bin. It may be used in sh, ksh, csh, bash or
almost any shell you care to mention. It is _not_ a bash built-in.
That being said, there _are_ bash builtins which have equivalents in the
standard paths ("test" comes to mind, one in bash and one in /usr/bin"),
but "rm" isn't one of them.
http://ss64.com/bash/
Try "man bash" first. You'll see that "rm" isn't one of its commands.
'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.
This much I know. What I didn't know what what would be the effect of
escaping * with yum.
I finally removed all the m17n paraphernalia with a plain
yum erase m17n*
Thanks to all!
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