Re: pkg_info(1) and wildcards / by-file listenings

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 11:55:48PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I was unclear. I want *shell* wildcards to fail, e.g.
>>      pkg_info -e lib*
>> as opposed to
>>      pkg_info -e lib\*
>
>       OK, makes sense - though thats more an artifact of where the
>       user is (/var/db/pkg would be a notable exception :)
>
>       What did you think of allowing multiple arguments via
>       'pkg_info -e xtrans xsnow'

You can't distinguish that from a shell having expanded a wildcard.
That's why I suggested to "fix" the option handling so that -e pattern
can be given more than once.

Joerg