Re: how does a linux user open a */mdb file?
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 01:01:44PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
| 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
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| $ dpkg -S \*mdb\*
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| and
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| $ dpkg -S mdb
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| do the same thing (but one is less typing).
Oh, now I see :-).
-D
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