RE: [LUG] suse to debian

[kevin bailey <kevin_bailey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

roger rog

hi theo - yeah you're right - checking out man dpkg shows you to be 
right.  to be even more anal, the man page says to use single quotes, not 
doubles :0)

thanks

kev


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On 12/30/01, 8:01:34 PM, "Theo Zourzouvillys" <theo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote 
regarding RE: [LUG] suse to debian:


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> > you can use wildcards with the name - so
> >
> > dpkg -l jo*

> With the risk of sounding anal, it's worth noting that jo* may need
> to be quoted as shell escaping may interfer with it.  I was very
> confuzed a while back by it, after a long coding spree no sleep, and
> too much caffine, had a problem like this:

> lister:/home/trek/trII/src# dpkg -l mysql*
> No packages found matching mysql.c.

> lister:/home/trek/trII/src# ls mysql*
> mysql.c

> router:/home/trek/trII/src# dpkg -l "mysql*"
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> *snip*
> un  mysql          <none>     (no description available)
> un  mysql-base     <none>     (no description available)

> I was so tired it must have taken me all of 10 minutes to work it out
> ;p

> Theo ;)

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