On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:53:05 -0400, Steve Brown wrote: > Due to disk space constraints on my notebook, I was unable to update 435 > applications all at once. Wanting to do my updates in smaller batches, > I tried 'yum update apr-*' and was happy to find that I could use > wildcards to specify smaller groups of applications to update. Next, I > tried 'yum update a* b* c* d*' figuring I would do four letters of the > alphabet at a time. The prompt said I would only be updating 2 > applications, though I know from my 'yum list updates' list that there > are many more applications to be updated beginning with those letters. > > Next, I tried 'yum update a*' and noticed that there were may lines > saying there was no match followed by the name of a file that started > with 'a' that was in the current directory. When I moved into an empty > subdirectory and ran 'yum update a*', it ran exactly as I had hoped. > > If this is a bug, please fix it. If it's a feature, please explain. > > By the way, something like 'yum -n ## update' where ## is the number of > applications to update would be helpful in this situation, or better > yet, have yum clean up after itself every ## updates. Don't let bash expand the star names. :-) It only passes the unexpanded star name when it fails. Do 'yum update "a*"' or 'yum update a\*'. -Paul _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
