[Solved] Re: Why update Swahili?
gilpel at altern.org
gilpel at altern.org
Thu Sep 24 01:14:20 UTC 2009
Andras Simon wrote:
> On 9/23/09, gilpel at altern.org <gilpel at altern.org> wrote:
>>> gilpel at altern.org wrote:
>> So, if I write
>>
>> rm m17n*
>>
>> it will remove all instances of m17n...
>>
>> but, because yum is not a bash command, the * has to be escaped?
>
> No. Neither are bash commands
Well, in my book, rm is a bash command. It might not be exclusive to the
bash shell, but it definitely is a bash command. Otherwise, maybe you
could tell us what a bash command is to you?
http://ss64.com/bash/
> 'rm *' will remove all files in the
> current directory, but 'rm \*' will only remove the one whose name is
> '*'. See any intro to unix in general and shells in particular.
This much I know. What I didn't know what what would be the effect of
escaping * with yum.
I finally removed all the m17n paraphernalia with a plain
yum erase m17n*
Thanks to all!
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