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[Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Donn Washburn <n5xwb@xxxxxxxxxx> [08-17-07 17:06]:
[...]
>> Am I doing it wrong or is there some other new trick.  "rpm -q"
>> rpmfilename seems to work but rpm "-q *" or "-qa *" fails to work.  Is
>> this a Senior Moment or bad memory problem.

"rpm -q *" doesn't work
"rpm -qa" does.

When invoking "rpm -qa", there is no need to pass "*" as well, hence the
proper usage is:
  rpm -qa
and not
  rpm -qa *

Also, be careful with using * on a command-line.

Unlike DOS or windows, the "*" is being replaced with proper values by
the shell _before_ calling the actual program.

Which means that if you're in /home/foo and you do this in a shell:
  rpm -qa *
the command that will actually be executed is the following:
  rpm -qa Desktop Documents bin public_html
because the * is resolved by the shell before calling rpm -qa.

Make sure to escape the "*", either like this:
  rpm -qa \*
or like this:
  rpm -qa "*"
or even like this:
  rpm -qa '*'

More information on that can be found in the bash manual (man bash, or
if you're using KDE, type "man:/bash" as the URL in konqueror).

But as said "rpm -qa \*" is useless, just do "rpm -qa"

You could do this though:
  rpm -qa amarok\*
In that case, rpm will only list the packages that have a name starting
with "amarok"

hope this helps

cheers
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