On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 09:05:04AM -0400, dman wrote: > 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. You missed the point ... "dpkg -S includes wildcards for you" means $ dpkg -S \*mdb\* and $ dpkg -S mdb do the same thing (but one is less typing). -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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