Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 23:28:18 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Meta-question on searching FreeBSD mail archives Message-ID: <19990210232818.D686@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199902101817.KAA02951@pau-amma.whistle.com>; from David Wolfskill on Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 10:17:07AM -0800 References: <199902101817.KAA02951@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 10:17:07AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
> So... I'm trying to be a "good kid " (well, sometimes) and check the
> archives because I came up with an oddity re: the "depends-list" target
> for making a port.
>
> So I tried searching -questions with the expression
>
> ports and depends-list
>
>
> But of the results I get, few have the expression "depends-list" in
> them... but they do seem to have "list" or "depends" in them.
>
> So is the hyphen being treated as a meta-character?
>
> I would welcome suggested improvements for search criteria.
>
>
FWIW I found something similar the other day. I was looking for an
old message that I knew would contain ``/var/db/pkg''. However
entering that string yielded no matches, but var*db*pkg did. Is
``/'' also treated specially?
> If I get a significant number of responses that are not copied to the
> list, I'll summarize to the list.
>
> Thanks,
> david
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