Give an example of use of wildcards with pkg_delete(1) to avoid the

problem of package version.
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Marc Fonvieille 2007-07-08 16:40:35 +00:00
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<replaceable>xchat</replaceable> was given instead of
<replaceable>xchat-1.7.1</replaceable>. It is, however, easy
to use &man.pkg.version.1; to find the version of the
installed package.</para>
installed package. You could instead simply use a wildcard:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_delete <replaceable>xchat\*</replaceable></userinput></screen>
<para>in this case, all packages whose names start with
<literal>xchat</literal> will be deleted.</para>
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