[TriLUG] missing packages help

[jason watts]

>
>>ran yum list libodbcinst.so.1 and it didnt list anything.
>>ran yum list lib* and it still didnt find anything...
>
>The second command did not list anything because the shell expands 
>wildcards.  The shell would look at "lib*" and replace that with the names 
>of files in your current directory that begin with "lib".  That's not what 
>you MEANT, but it IS what you SAID.
>

i was trying to to show all the files that begain with lib. i was looking to 
see if i could find something similar to the libobdcinst


>When there are no files that begin with "lib", the shell can do one of two 
>things:
>(1) replace "lib*" with ""
>(2) keep the "lib*"


im confused about option 1)... but thats what they made man pages for, ill 
have to look into that later.

thanks
jsn