yum: the package manager I love to hate

[Michael Semcheski]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> try: yum whatprovides */xxd
>

One thing to note with this:  if you have a file that matches */xxd (for
example, if you have /home/mike/bin/xxd and the current directory is
/home/mike) yum (or maybe its bash) will expand the wildcard.

So, assuming you are in /home/mike, and /home/mike/bin/xxd exists, then:
    yum whatprovides */xxd
is the same as:
    yum whatprovides /home/mike/bin/xxd

Yum will come back and say "No matches found."

If you put quotes (single or double) around the '*/xxd', yum will really do
a wildcard search.
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