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From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
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I've been trying to construct a command line that will pkg_deinstall all
except for a few.  I've found the -x switch but can not build an "or"
pkgname_glob.  Here's an example of one of the many combinations I tried:

pkg_deinstall -n -x {'XFree86*','webmin','ruby*'} '*'

This particular example will exclude the XFree packages but includes webmin
and ruby*.

My shell is tcsh.  Is it possible to accomplish what I'm trying to do?  How?

Thanks,

Drew