From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jun 27 10:17:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3726337B401 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 10:17:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rahul.Siddharthan@lpt.ens.fr) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f5RHH4p34646 ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 19:17:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id TAA81950 ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 19:18:09 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 19:18:09 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: John Reynolds~ Cc: mark@summersault.com, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: doc suggestion Message-ID: <20010627191809.C80971@lpt.ens.fr> References: <3B3A0EAB.9B950DC9@summersault.com> <15162.4025.666107.576314@hip186.ch.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message