Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 12:02:17 -0500 From: Mark Stosberg <mark@summersault.com> To: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: doc suggestion Message-ID: <3B3A118D.1632DBC4@summersault.com> References: <3B3A0EAB.9B950DC9@summersault.com> <15162.4025.666107.576314@hip186.ch.intel.com>
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John Reynolds~ wrote: > > [ On Wednesday, June 27, Mark Stosberg wrote: ] > > > > Hello! > > > > pkg_info grizzle* > > > > which is more intuitive (and shorter) than using > > > > pkg_info -a | grep grizzle > > probably a good thing, but a minor nit: > > pkg_info 'grizzle*' -or- pkg_info grizzle\* > > pkg_info will glob the '*' only if it sees it in its argv[] so you have to > escape it from the shell. It seems to work as I decribed on FreeBSD 4.3: (using bash shell) ##### mark@nollie to_home> uname -a FreeBSD nollie.summersault.com 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Wed May 9 16:03:58 EST 2001root@esperanza.summersault.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/NOLLIE.050901 i386 mark@nollie to_home> pkg_info postgres* Information for postgresql-7.0.3: Comment: A robust, next generation, object-relational DBMS Description: .... ########### -mark http://mark.stosberg.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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