On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 16:13:59 -0500 MKlinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 30 August 2003 16:02, Otto Haliburton wrote: > > Why doesn't it work if you give rpm the name with [1] in it that's > > the question. The name shouldn't make any difference if you get it > > right in the rpm. > > > > It's possible that the RPM utility parses the command argument line for > version identification and/or regressive file manipulation. You'd > probably have to look at the source code to be sure. > > Regards, Mke Klinke > > You're exactly right. rpm does it's own _globals_ expansion and recognizes the square brackets just like asterisks and other special characters. It's an amusing experiment to try to install an rpm with square brackets in the name: # ls ruby-1.[1].8.0-1.i386.rpm # rpm -Uvh ruby-1.[1].8.0-1.i386.rpm error: File not found by glob: ruby-1.[1].8.0-1.i386.rpm # rpm -Uvh *.rpm error: File not found by glob: ruby-1.[1].8.0-1.i386.rpm # rpm -Uvh ruby-1.\[1\].8.0-1.i386.rpm error: File not found by glob: ruby-1.[1].8.0-1.i386.rpm # rpm -Uvh 'ruby-1.[1].8.0-1.i386.rpm' error: File not found by glob: ruby-1.[1].8.0-1.i386.rpm # rpm -Uvh '*.rpm' Preparing... ########################################### [100%] Cheers, Sean -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
