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Date:      Thu, 28 Jun 2001 14:00:58 +0100
From:      Tom Hukins <tom@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>
Cc:        mark@summersault.com, doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: doc suggestion
Message-ID:  <20010628140058.A29747@eborcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <15162.4025.666107.576314@hip186.ch.intel.com>; from jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com on Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:54:17AM -0700
References:  <3B3A0EAB.9B950DC9@summersault.com> <15162.4025.666107.576314@hip186.ch.intel.com>

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On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 09:54:17AM -0700, John Reynolds~ wrote:
> 
> [ 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.

Thanks!  I've just committed a change to "pkg_info -I 'grizzle*'" (see
revision 1.118 of
doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml).

Regards,
Tom

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