Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2025 02:34:00 +0100 From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> To: freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I just made a typo in a glob pattern for a pkg delete -g (no -a and no force) and mistakenly then selected Y, leading to partial partial system destruction before I stopped it Message-ID: <c32ecb2e-268e-4d73-9894-134bea57151b@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <543E0A7A-8C65-43B7-8CC3-13D0D86F4085@yahoo.com>
index | next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail
On 31/08/2025 20:59, Mark Millard wrote: > (The glob pattern was expected to match a lot of port-packages, more > than shows in a window in the context.) > > I really wish that the likes of: > > # pkg delete -r FreeBSD-ports -g . . . > > was supported … Is it not supported? I see 'pkg-name ...' at the tail of the third of the four synopsis lines, <https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg-delete&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-ports#SYNOPSIS>.home | help
Want to link to this message? Use this
URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?c32ecb2e-268e-4d73-9894-134bea57151b>