RPM wildcard question

Wojciech Komornicki wnk at hamline.edu
Thu Jan 24 17:26:16 UTC 2013


Expansion of the asterisk is handled by the shell.  To see what such a command 
will do, issue the command 
         echo *.rpm
You will see the full list of RPMs.
-- 
Wojciech Komornicki

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>>>>> "Doug" == Doug  <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> writes:

  Doug:> If you have a directory with a whole batch of RPMs, all part
  Doug:> of some program suite, is it possible to use a wildcard to
  Doug:> install all of the RPMs at once, like so:
  Doug:>                             rpm -Uvh *.rpm
  Doug:> If not is there some other simple way ot do it? The program
  Doug:> in question has about 20 RPMs. (No, I don't know why they
  Doug:> did it this way.)

  Doug:> Thanx--doug

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