On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 09:46:53PM +0200, Nicolas François wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 09:53:38AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > 
> > $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/[
> > dpkg: /usr/bin/[ not found.
> > $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/\\[
> > coreutils: /usr/bin/[
> > 
> > coreutils.list:/usr/bin/[
> 
> Justin, can you look at #365271.
> It is the same issue.
> 
> I don't think dpkg can do much in this case, and I think this bug should
> be closed.
I'd forgotten or didn't know that dpkg-query did globs.  Should a
pattern with '[' without a closing ']' be treated as invalid?  I guess
since the shell doesn't, fnmatch doesn't, so dpkg can't...  Is this
correct?

Justin


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