On Fri, Jun 15, 2018, 18:46 Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, 2018-06-15 at 18:01 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > On 06/15/18 13:44, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> > > Tim via users wrote:
> > > > Allegedly, on or about 14 June 2018, Todd Zullinger sent:
> > > > > To be fair, I don't think the rpm man page documents its
> > > > > wildcard support.  If it does, I'm looking past it.
> > > >
> > > > I've always successfully done things like this:
> > > >
> > > > rpm -qa \*pulse\*
> > > >
> > > > More through force of habit, than any hard knowledge.
> > >
> > > Yeah.  That's worked for as long as I can remember.  I just
> > > noticed while looking at the man page that it's apparently
> > > not documented. :)
> >
> > [egreshko@meimei ~]$ rpm -qa pulse*
> > pulseaudio-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64
> > pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64
> > pulseaudio-module-x11-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64
> > pulseaudio-libs-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64
> > pulseaudio-libs-glib2-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64
> > pulseaudio-utils-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64
> >
> > [egreshko@meimei ~]$ rpm -qa *pulse*
> > pulseaudio-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64
> > pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64
> > alsa-plugins-pulseaudio-1.1.6-3.fc28.x86_64
> > pulseaudio-module-x11-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64
> > pulseaudio-libs-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64
> > kde-settings-pulseaudio-28.0-2.fc28.noarch
> > pulseaudio-libs-glib2-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64
> > pulseaudio-utils-11.1-18.fc28.1.x86_64
> >
> > Works fine here.  No escaping needed.  Not that it matters
>
> The escaping is a precaution. Your example wouldn't work if you had a
> filename starting with 'pulse' in the current directory.
>
>
>

Yeah, but I'm always aware of that possibly. So it's never an issue for me.
I like less typing 😁
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