On Fri, 2018-06-15 at 18:01 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 06/15/18 13:44, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Tim via users wrote:
> > Allegedly, on or about 14 June 2018, Todd Zullinger sent:
> > > To be fair, I don't think the rpm man page documents its
> > > wildcard support. If it does, I'm looking past it.
> >
> > I've always successfully done things like this:
> >
> > rpm -qa \*pulse\*
> >
> > More through force of habit, than any hard knowledge.
>
> Yeah. That's worked for as long as I can remember. I just
> noticed while looking at the man page that it's apparently
> not documented. :)
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ rpm -qa pulse*
pulseaudio-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-x11-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-glib2-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64
pulseaudio-utils-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ rpm -qa *pulse*
pulseaudio-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64
alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.1.6-3.fc28.x86_64
pulseaudio-module-x11-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64
kde-settings-pulseaudio-28.0-2.fc28.noarch
pulseaudio-libs-glib2-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64
pulseaudio-utils-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64
Works fine here. No escaping needed. Not that it matters
The escaping is a precaution. Your example wouldn't work if you had a
filename starting with 'pulse' in the current directory.
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