rpm -qa auto* works under rh9 but not yet under rh7.3.
It is a good thing the feature has been added!
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> 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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