Where is Kdict?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Mon Jul 21 22:43:54 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 17:54 +0000, g wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> <snip>
> > If you have no file matching *kdict in your current directory, then of
> > course they're the same. That's what I'm saying.
> > 
> > All of this has nothing to do with yum or kdict of course. It's just
> > basic Shell semantics.
> 
> ok. i can/will accept this. yum matching 1st to current directory is
> something i was not aware of.

Once again: this has nothing to do with yum. Wildcard expansion is done
by the Shell before the command is even executed. This is true of all
Unix/Linux Shells (Bourne, bash, csh, ash, zsh, Korn, ksh, ...)

Try "info bash" to read up on the bash Shell, which is the default in
Fedora.

poc




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