On Wednesday 04 April 2007 19:20, my mailbox was graced by a missive
from Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who wrote:
> > > Why the period is needed between the * and rpm I do not know
> > > (*.rpm). I just know that it works.
> > To select all the files in the directory with the extention .rpm ?
> Then why doesn't *rpm do the same thing?
*.rpm will select files with the extention .rpm.
*rpm will select the same files, plus any file with a name like "notarpm",
or "thisisnot.arpm", which would probably cause the rpm command to throw up
an error message.
Cheers,
Ron.
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