seth vidal wrote: > On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 14:05, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: >> the manpage for yum in the update section says: >> "If no package matches the given package name(s), they are assumed to be >> a shell glob and any matches are then installed." >> >> well i tried: >> yum update kde* > > You might want to try: > yum update kde\* > > as the shell expands kde* first and looks for it in the cwd. oops, how absent minded of me...thanks!