[svlug] about RPM

[Vince Duperron]

Hello;

There has to be more to it than that.  I can do rpm -qa | grep ls
and still see nothing.  Further "| grep" means take the standard
out and pipe it into grep.  If there is nothing on the standard out
grep will return nothing, as it should.  The command rpm -qa MUST 
return something if the pipe is ever to work.

Vince

> 
> Vince Duperron writes:
> 
> > Hello;
> > 
> > I have been following this thread in hopes of learning more about 
> > rpm.  I try the example below and if fails...
> > 
> > [vince at thingfish ~]% rpm -qa | grep inet
> > [vince at thingfish ~]% rpm -qa 
> > [vince at thingfish ~]% uname -rav
> > Linux thingfish 2.2.18pre21 #1 Sun Mar 4 14:45:32 PST 2001 ppc unknown
> > 
> > 
> > bobby 7% rpm -qa | grep inet
> > bobby 8% rpm -qa 
> > bobby 9% uname -rav
> > Linux bobby 2.2.18pre21-compact #1 Sat Nov 18 09:23:46 MST 2000 i586 unknown
> > 
> > 
> > I would expect that rpm -qa would Query All rpms in the data base.
> > I would expect to see a long stream of stuff.
> > 
> > Is this right?
> 
> Yes, but you don't have any package whose name contains "inet".
> 
> (The database in question is a database of packages that you have
> installed, not all packages that exist.)
> 
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