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Date:      Wed, 27 Jun 2001 09:54:17 -0700
From:      John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>
To:        mark@summersault.com
Cc:        doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: doc suggestion
Message-ID:  <15162.4025.666107.576314@hip186.ch.intel.com>
In-Reply-To: <3B3A0EAB.9B950DC9@summersault.com>
References:  <3B3A0EAB.9B950DC9@summersault.com>

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[ On Wednesday, June 27, Mark Stosberg wrote: ]
> 
> Hello!
> 
> pkg_info grizzle*
> 
> which is more intuitive (and shorter) than using
> 
> pkg_info -a | grep grizzle

probably a good thing, but a minor nit:

  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.

-Jr

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