Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 02:17:39 -0500 From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Regular Expression Syntax - SOLVED Message-ID: <20020118071739.GC96529@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <004f01c19f6f$d72336c0$c42a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> References: <000b01c19f00$d396db20$0301a8c0@bigdaddy> <004f01c19f6f$d72336c0$c42a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>
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wrote Drew Tomlinson thusly...
>
...
> 4. And finally, Kent Stewart figured out what I was attempting to do
> and suggested deleting all packages, installing CVSUP from packages, and
> then installing portupgrade and all of it's dependencies.
ah, of course, for kent is the mind reader!
> Thank you all for helping me learn to tie all of the basics together to
> perform more complex commands. Now I'm *REALLY* starting to understand
> and appreciate the power of FBSD.
in the spirit of above, the equivalent original command...
pkg_info | awk '! /portupgrade|cvsup/ {print "pkg_deinstall " $1}'
...couldn't have worked by itself, unless passed to shell
(untested)...
pkg_info | awk '! /portupgrade|cvsup/ {print "pkg_deinstall " $1}' | sh
...or executed in a script. same difference. a better way
to write the above -- not necessarily a better way for
maintaining installed ports -- would be (untested)...
pkg_info | awk '! /portupgrade|cvsup/ {print $1}' | xargs pkg_deinstall -f
and i pray,
i haven't mislead thee
anymore.
if so,
will be pleased
to be wrong.
- parv
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