Re: bulk rpm delete

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram redhat com>]

Claude Jones wrote:

> I did a rpm -qa | grep kde-il8n and now I have a long list of the il8n's which 
> I want to delete. I thought I could just rpm -e kde-il8n* but it doesn't 
> work. I've read man pages and searched for a solution - I'm sure it's staring 
> me in the face - could someone tell me what I'm omitting?
>  
The Bash shell gets greedy here and interprets * before the RPM command 
receives it so you use the following instead which uses \  to tell the 
shell to ignore it (ie) an escape sequence

rpm -e kde-i18n\*

regards
Rahul