why do we use the asterisk in sudo apt-get remove ros-*
we used asterisk in the following command sudo apt-get remove ros-* why do we use this asterisk
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In short: the asterisk tells apt to select all packages that start with ros-. So it selects not a single package, but all packages installed that have a name starting with ros-.
See wikipedia/Regular expression and wikipedia/Glob for more information.
Asked: 2019-09-19 00:34:13 -0500
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Last updated: Sep 19 '19
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