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I had to do some scripting. You can query the rpm database with a wildcard pattern. The output is stored in a variable FOUND.
FOUND=$(rpm -qa *econn*)
vinh@foha03:~> echo $FOUND
fo-econn-dev-3.2.7-364.noarch
To check is the search result is empty (-z) or not empty (-n):
vinh@foha03:~> if [ -z "$FOUND" ]; then echo $FOUND; fi
vinh@foha03:~> if [ -n "$FOUND" ]; then echo $FOUND; fi
fo-econn-dev-3.2.7-364.noarch
