bulk rpm delete

[Rahul Sundaram]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> 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\*
>
oops. Got that wrong. try this one instead

rpm -e $(rpm -qa | grep kde-il8n)

regards
Rahul