Hi, Try with \ like this: "rpm -q \*" These are the files/folders in the current folder Regards, Luiz 2010/8/11 Donn Washburn :

 Why is it that after running "rpm -q *" as root I get.

package Public is not installed package public_html is not installed package screen-configurations.xml is not installed package signature.comcast is not installed package SQL is not installed package student is not installed package SUSE-Linux-10.glabels is not installed package Templates is not installed package tmp is not installed package txt_docs is not installed package udev-rules is not installed package Videos is not installed package vlc is not installed package weekalarmrc is not installed package xine+anarok.txt is not installed package yast-devel-1.eml is not installed

100 of lines of this.  Yet they works

I loaded rpm off my DVD, zypper and again off yast2 with the same result.  As an effort to fix it I ran rpm --rebuilddb and --initdb - no change.

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On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:22:13 +0200 Philipp Thomas wrote:

by prefixing it with \. But even then it won't work as rpm doesn't understand wildcards. If you want to list all installed packes use 'rpm -qa'.

and "rpm -qa" *does* understand wildcards: susi:~ # rpm -qa 'tex*' texlive-bin-2009-15.1.x86_64 texlive-latex-2009-15.1.noarch texinfo-4.13a-10.5.x86_64 texlive-bin-latex-2009-15.1.x86_64 texlive-2009-15.1.noarch *much* better than the old pipe-n-grep way ;-) -- Stefan Seyfried "Any ideas, John?" "Well, surrounding them's out." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

* Stefan Seyfried (stefan.seyfried@googlemail.com) [20100811 21:52]:

and "rpm -qa" *does* understand wildcards:

susi:~ # rpm -qa 'tex*'

But 'rpm -q' does not, so 'rpm -q \*' will return 'package * not installed' or some such. Good to know that -qa does take wildcards. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org