On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:26:06PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: | On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, will trillich uttered: | > | > $ dpkg -S \*mdb\* | That isn't neccessay, dpkg -S includes wildcards for you, iirc. Actually, the quoting is necessary so that the *shell* doesn't expand the wildcards. dpkg never sees the backslashes. -D