Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 19:05:34 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Deleting packages - a newbie question Message-ID: <199904190005.TAA41276@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> of "Sun, 18 Apr 1999 19:27:14 BST." <19990418192714.B252@marder-1>
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Mark Ovens writes:
> Why not extend what you already do?
>
> pkg_delete `pkg_info -Ia | grep coloredit | awk '{print $1}'`
Change your shell to enable filename expansion and you can quickly read
the version number something like this (using tcsh) <TAB> is ^I, tab:
% /var/db/pkg/fetch<TAB>
on my system the above expands to:
% /var/db/pkg/fetchmail-5.0.0
Then taking advantage of tcsh's emacs like command line editing one can
type:
% pkg_delete /var/db/pkg/fetch<TAB>
which expands to (redundant tonight):
% pkg_delete /var/db/pkg/fetchmail-5.0.0/
then the DELETE (or backspace) key and ^B can trim off the excess.
Can probably do similar with bash.
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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net
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