[Yum] Wildcard bug or feature?
Paul Dickson
paul at permanentmail.com
Fri Mar 23 17:44:39 UTC 2007
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:53:05 -0400, Steve Brown wrote:
> Due to disk space constraints on my notebook, I was unable to update 435
> applications all at once. Wanting to do my updates in smaller batches,
> I tried 'yum update apr-*' and was happy to find that I could use
> wildcards to specify smaller groups of applications to update. Next, I
> tried 'yum update a* b* c* d*' figuring I would do four letters of the
> alphabet at a time. The prompt said I would only be updating 2
> applications, though I know from my 'yum list updates' list that there
> are many more applications to be updated beginning with those letters.
>
> Next, I tried 'yum update a*' and noticed that there were may lines
> saying there was no match followed by the name of a file that started
> with 'a' that was in the current directory. When I moved into an empty
> subdirectory and ran 'yum update a*', it ran exactly as I had hoped.
>
> If this is a bug, please fix it. If it's a feature, please explain.
>
> By the way, something like 'yum -n ## update' where ## is the number of
> applications to update would be helpful in this situation, or better
> yet, have yum clean up after itself every ## updates.
Don't let bash expand the star names. :-) It only passes the unexpanded
star name when it fails.
Do 'yum update "a*"' or 'yum update a\*'.
-Paul
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