yum update lib*

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Dec 13 08:26:31 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 08:32 -0800, Scott Talbot wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 19:33 +1300, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
> > 
> > Hi, for some reason 'yum update lib*' does nothing while 'yum update
> > libp*' does?  is there some code in yum to prevent lib* or is it a
> > bug?
> 
> 	I find that escaping all * [ ] ? chars return better results - not sure
> why (yeah I know that "officially" bash is replacing them instead of
> YUM) anyway try yum update lib\*

This is good advice. The reason that lib* may not work is that if there
is a file or directory in the current directory with a name that starts
with "lib", bash will replace the "lib*" with the name(s) of the one or
more files or directories that start with "lib". Yum never sees the *
unless bash is unable to find a match in the current directory.

So most likely the OP had a file/directory starting with "lib" but not
starting with "libp" in the current directory when issuing the yum
commands.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>




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