Why update Swahili?

[Suvayu Ali]

gilpel at altern.org wrote:
>>> Those packages provide contributed multilingualization (m17n) input maps
>>> for... whatever the language.
>> If you don't need them, just say
>> yum erase m17n\*
> 
> Yeah, I suppose with yum they wouldn't come back. But what is the
> backslash for? Can't find any backslash in the yum man page.
> 

The backslash is to prevent the shell from expanding the asterisk and 
passing on the asterisk to yum literally. Its called escaping a special 
character. Try looking for escaping characters in the bash man page.

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Suvayu

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