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Date:      Wed, 27 Jun 2001 19:21:24 +0200
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To:        Mark Stosberg <mark@summersault.com>
Cc:        John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: doc suggestion
Message-ID:  <20010627192124.D80971@lpt.ens.fr>
In-Reply-To: <3B3A118D.1632DBC4@summersault.com>; from mark@summersault.com on Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 12:02:17PM -0500
References:  <3B3A0EAB.9B950DC9@summersault.com> <15162.4025.666107.576314@hip186.ch.intel.com> <3B3A118D.1632DBC4@summersault.com>

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Mark Stosberg said on Jun 27, 2001 at 12:02:17:
> >   pkg_info 'grizzle*'  -or- pkg_info grizzle\*
> > 
> > pkg_info will glob the '*' only if it sees it in its argv[] so you have to
> > escape it from the shell.
> 
> It seems to work as I decribed on FreeBSD 4.3: (using bash shell)

But not on csh/tcsh: you need the quotes.

R


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