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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:07:06 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: Oliver Iberien <odilist@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: Two firefoxes, 1.5 and 2.0, script keeps running 1.5 instead
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In the last episode (Apr 12), Oliver Iberien said:
> Thanks for this... However, I can't get the first command to work:
> 
> bsd# pkg_delete -dfv firefox*
> pkg_delete: No match.
> 
> Is there some other way to express this, or something to tweak in my
> shell I have not done?

You need to escape or quote the asterisk so your shell doesn't try and
expand it:  firefox\*  or "firefox*"

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com