On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Matthew Seaman <m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > On 31/10/2010 17:56, Freddie Cash wrote: >> The correct command is: pkg_delete -xf portmaster >> >> -x does name globbing internally to pkg_delete, and should be used >> over any shell globbing (like *). > > So dogmatic. '-x' is one alternative. A globbing expression is > another. Either can be useful, and either should be used at will and as > circumstances warrant. > > Also note that > > pkg_delete -xf portmaster > > is technically not equivalent to > > pkg_delete -f portmaster\* > > Instead it's equivalent to > > pkg_delete -f \*portmaster\*
Which is why I mentioned the "more safe" alternative, which you snipped out of your reply: pkg_delete -xif portmaster Note the extra "i" in the middle, which makes the pkg_delete call interactive, showing the package name to be deleted, and asking the user whether that's the correct package to be deleted. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
