Re: Rpm -qa

[Michael Schwendt <mschwendt tmp0701 nospam arcor de>]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:25:31 +0200, Antonio M wrote:

> >  try running:
> >  rpm -qa | grep gstreamer
> >
> >  on the second system
> >
> >  I bet there's a shell-expansion issue going on there.
> >
> >
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> tnx Seth...of course it worked.
> what is the difference between rpm -qa gstreamer* and your
> suggestion?? and why on system I get the complete list and the other
> no???

The answer is above: shell-expansion
A file gstreamer* in current directory.
Prefer  rpm -qa gstreamer\*
Or  rpm -qa 'gstreamer*'
to avoid that.