On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 01:01:44PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: | On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 09:05:04AM -0400, dman wrote: | > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:26:06PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: | > | On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:53:33PM -0500, will trillich uttered: | > | > | > | > $ dpkg -S \*mdb\* | > | That isn't neccessay, dpkg -S includes wildcards for you, iirc. | > | > Actually, the quoting is necessary so that the *shell* doesn't expand | > the wildcards. dpkg never sees the backslashes. | | You missed the point ... "dpkg -S includes wildcards for you" means | | $ dpkg -S \*mdb\* | | and | | $ dpkg -S mdb | | do the same thing (but one is less typing).
Oh, now I see :-). -D
