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.
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Wojciech Komornicki
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Saunders Mac Lane
>>>>> "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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