is fedora really bleeding edge?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 05.03.2012 02:32, schrieb Paul Allen Newell:
> On 3/4/2012 5:28 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>> Am 05.03.2012 02:01, schrieb Paul Allen Newell:
>>> On 3/4/2012 1:46 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>>> Run: yum install python3\*
>>>> and see what happens.
>>> Aaron:
>>>
>>> I just went through all the man pages and docs on yum and couldn't see what this syntax meant. To get python3, I do
>>> "yum install python3" ... what does the \* get me?
>> the backslash escapes the * for the shell
>> if not all filenames starting with python3 would be
>> interpreted as parameter what you surely do not want
>>
> Reindl:
> 
> Thanks. From a shell point-of-view, this makes sense, but I am still not certain what it 
> buys me over just "yum install python3"

escape shell wildcards if you do not mean or
sooner or later it will hurt you by interpreting
something you did not want

people are working all the day with the shell learning
such things by get hurted and will suggest correct
commands, at leat it is your choice to gamble :-)





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