Re: Why update Swahili?

[Tony Nelson <tonynelson georgeanelson com>]

On 09-09-23 04:15:14, Andras Simon wrote:

> No. Neither are bash commands, but you issue them in a shell (which,
> in your case, is probably bash). Since the shell sees your command 
> and its arguments first, it can and does manipulate them. One thing 
> it does with them is

attempt to

> expand special characters, such as * and ?; so
> unless you escape those, yum or rm will never see them, only the
> result(s) of the expansion

, unless there was no match, in which case bash will pass on the "*",
making the yum command depend on the contents of the current directory
(see `man bash` "Pathname Expansion" and the various *glob options)

> . 'rm *' will remove all files in the
> current directory, but 'rm \*' will only remove the one whose name is
> '*'. See any intro to unix in general and shells in particular.



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