And lo, upon Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 12:16:53PM -0500, Jeff Johnson spaketh thusly:
>
> The above is perfectly correct, but let me supply a technical correction.
>
> Wild cards, more technically, regex's and/or globs through fnmatch, are
> permitted on the command line in rpm-4.0.3, try
> rpm -qa XFree*
>
> I hasten to point out that I don't believe that this functionality
> is going to be useful at all on the rpm CLI. The arguments to rpm -qa
> are package names, not files, so the regex/glob expressions are applied
> to database keys, not files on path, and there is little reason to
> believe that I can "fake" a file system onto a database retrieval key
> through regex/glob sufficiently well to have implemented useful and/or
> intuitive functionality.
Would this work?
rpm -qa 'XFree*'
That would prevent the shell from expanding the '*' character, and
since you say wild cards are supported by 4.03, shouldn't that allow rpm's
pattern matching to work properly?
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