On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 09:09:04 -0500, Martin J. Stumpf wrote:
> I thought this might be helpful. Reading the posts regarding mysql and
> using rpm, I saw the use of grep to find the package of interest. I too
> always used grep but always thought that with a -qa I should be able to
> use wildcards! So.... I tried it about a month ago and aha! It worked.
> It must be undocumented because I have never seen it in the manual.
>
> {mjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx}:/home/mjs
> % rpm -qa auto*
> automake-1.6.3-5
> autofs-3.1.7-36
> autoconf-2.57-3
> automake15-1.5-6
> autorun-3.10-1
> automake14-1.4p6-5.1
>
> {mjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx}:/home/mjs
> % rpm -qa my*
> mysql-3.23.54a-11
> mysql-server-3.23.54a-11
Be sure to put the wildcard expression into single quotes,
rpm -qa 'my*'
else the shell takes care of it when files in local directory are matched.
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