please don't 'bottom-post', it stuffs up the what others like to read
their email.

Seriously, top/bottom posting is almost a religeous thing, respect the
way others like to read their mail. As for stuffing up bottom-posters
threads, I usually trash anything that cannot be read without scrolling
down, so they are lost anyway!

BillK

*let the flames begin!

On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 04:18, Buchan Milne wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Michael Viron wrote:
>
> > Didn't know you could do that -- used to be it would error out (I think).
>
> (please don't 'top-post', it stuffs up the thread for everyone else)
>
> >
> > Michael
> > >
> > >Michael Viron wanted us to know:
> > >
> > >>>Provide the following:
> > >>>rpm -q ppp
> > >>>uname -r
> > >>>rpm -qa pptp*
> > >>Should be 'rpm -qa | grep pptp' -- otherwise, you'll either get the entire
> > >>list, or get an error message that it doesn't match anything.
> > >
> > ><grin> Have you *tried* it?
> > >
> > >[roottrip /var]# rpm -qa proftp*
> > >proftpd-1.2.5-3mdk
> > >[roottrip /var]# rpm -qa kernel*
> > >kernel-source-2.4.19-16mdk
> > >kernel-headers-2.4.18-41mdk
> > >kernel-2.4.19.16mdk-1-1mdk
>
> Of course, Todd should really tell you that you should escape your
> string, since if you have matching files in the directory, your shell will
> expand the wildcard, and your query won't work:
>
> [bgmilnebgmilne bgmilne]$ ls grass* -d
> grassdata/ grass.tif
>
> When I run:
> [bgmilnebgmilne bgmilne]$ rpm -qa grass*
> [bgmilnebgmilne bgmilne]$
>
> I checked processes running, and saw this:
>
> 31117 pts/8 D 0:00 /usr/lib/rpm/rpmq -q --all grassdata grass.tif
>
> Whereas running:
> [bgmilnebgmilne bgmilne]$ rpm -qa 'grass*'
> grass-5.0.0-1mdk
> [bgmilnebgmilne bgmilne]$
>
> Gave this:
> 31120 pts/8 R 0:00 /usr/lib/rpm/rpmq -q --all grass*
>
> Escape the shell!
>
> Buchan
>
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