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Date:      Wed, 27 Jun 2001 19:18:09 +0200
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To:        John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>
Cc:        mark@summersault.com, doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: doc suggestion
Message-ID:  <20010627191809.C80971@lpt.ens.fr>
In-Reply-To: <15162.4025.666107.576314@hip186.ch.intel.com>; from jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com on Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:54:17AM -0700
References:  <3B3A0EAB.9B950DC9@summersault.com> <15162.4025.666107.576314@hip186.ch.intel.com>

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John Reynolds~ said on Jun 27, 2001 at 09:54:17:
> 
> [ 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

A better thing, actually, imo -- since this form picks out the
specific package you want and gives you all the info;
the |grep version picks out every line of every package which happens
to mention "grizzle", but leaves out those lines for grizzle itself
which don't mention "grizzle".

R

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