On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 09:09 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > Or could it be that '+' does something special in the shell. > > Strangely both work for me, although it does appear that + has some > special value in a bash shell and should probably be escaped or quoted > (along with the rest of the string). > > This might be much the same as having to escape \* to get wildcards to > work in yum, because bash interprets the wildcard first and yum > doesn't > see what you expect it to see for the string. > > I talked w/ Seth and it's slightly different from the asterisk thing. Bash grabs the asterisk before sending it into yum, whereas with the +, something inside of yum or rpm is not escaping the + correctly, not bash. -- Jesse Keating RHCE (http://geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (http://www.fedoralegacy.org) GPG Public Key (http://geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating
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