Re: I just made a typo in a glob pattern for a pkg delete -g (no -a and no force) and mistakenly then selected Y, leading to partial partial system destruction before I stopped it

[Graham Perrin]

On 31/08/2025 20:59, Mark Millard wrote:

(The glob pattern was expected to match a lot of port-packages, more
than shows in a window in the context.)
I really wish that the likes of:

# pkg delete -r FreeBSD-ports -g . . .

was supported …


Is it not supported?

I see 'pkg-name ...' at the tail of the third of the four synopsis 
lines, 
<https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg-delete&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-ports#SYNOPSIS>.