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[Timothy Murphy]

James Wilkinson wrote:

>> # yum install kde\*devel
> 
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> 
>> As a matter of interest, does one have to "escape" the '*' as above?
>> I haven't seen that in the yum documentation I've read. 

> Quoting the asterisk means that the shell won't interpret it, and it
> will get handed over to yum. Yum *does* know what to do with it.
> 
> The moral of this and various other stories is that if you don't want
> the shell to interpret an asterisk, you quote it.

OK, thanks, point noted.

On the other hand, I'm pretty sure I have seen examples of yum commands
posted which included unescaped *'s.
I guess the posters assumed the reader knew that esapement was required ...

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