Re: I just made a typo in a glob pattern for a pkg delete -g (no -a and no force) and mistakenly then selected Y, leading to partial partial system destruction before I stopped it

In reply to: Mark Millard : "I just made a typo in a glob pattern for a pkg delete -g (no -a and no force) and mistakenly then selected Y, leading to partial partial system destruction before I stopped it"
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From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2025 01:34:00 UTC

On 31/08/2025 20:59, Mark Millard wrote:

> (The glob pattern was expected to match a lot of port-packages, more
> than shows in a window in the context.)
>
> I really wish that the likes of:
>
> # pkg delete -r FreeBSD-ports -g . . .
>
> was supported …

Is it not supported?

I see 'pkg-name ...' at the tail of the third of the four synopsis 
lines, 
<https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg-delete&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-ports#SYNOPSIS>.