On 10/16/13 09:20, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 10/15/2013 01:07 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
Please, people: When you give advice, make sure you get the little
details right.
Knowledgeable types and gurus can readily spot and fix minor
infelicities. But to us
bunnies a minor infelicity can be completely bewildering. Test your
code before
sending!
FYI, root isn't needed for such queries.
That makes sense!
I used this:
yum provides */libpng-config
with no quotes, as my normal, unprivileged user and got the answer
with no trouble.
Hmm. I tried that just now and got the "No match." again. WTF?
Ahhhhh, I think I see
what's happening. I am using (due to my personal peculiarities ---
:-) ) tcsh. I expect
that you, like most people, are using bash. Tried it under bash,
and bingo, it worked.
Mildly fascinating that there is this difference in the treatment
of wild cards between
bash and tcsh.
Anyhow, thanks for the enlightenment.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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