On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 05:09:58PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote:
> Why can't you do 'dpkg -i <first seven letters><tab>'?  Or even just 
> 'dpkg -i *.deb' if you are installing everything in the directory 
> anyway.  dpkg doesn't really care about filenames and doesn't use them 
> for anything.

This is dependant on what shell you run.  I know tenex c shell (tcsh)
doesn't work like this, but Bourne Again (bash) does.

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