yum update displaying weird text with wildcards

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 14:34 +1100, David Timms wrote:
> Hi, since fedora-devel repo is having trouble (libosp.so.4 for 
> openjade), I've been updating by using wildcards:
> # yum --disablerepo=extras-development update s* t* u*
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up Update Process
> Setting up repositories
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Could not find update match for s*
> Could not find update match for tall mc
> Could not find update match for u*
> No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion
> #
> 
> I can't imagine where the "t*" could be getting turned into "tall mc" (I 
> wondered if I or the repo had been hacked!). It doesn't seem to cause 
> further problems with the update, but that's not finished yet.

your shell is expanding them out to match things in the dir you're in.

you need to escape or quote them.

-sv