> gilpel@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >>>>> 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. >> >> So, if I write >> >> rm m17n* >> >> it will remove all instances of m17n... >> >> but, because yum is not a bash command, the * has to be escaped? > > I may be wrong - if so, I hope I will be corrected - > but I don't think you _have_ to escape the *. I must confess I forgot to try what would have happened with yum erase m17n/* It now seems to me it would have only erased the files named literally m17n*, not m17n_shahili or _whatever. Maybe somebody not really interested in swahili could try it :) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
