On 2008-12-17 , at 10:46 , David Epstein wrote:
port list R* can't do what we want, can it? The shell tries to
expand R* to
match a file in the current directory, and otherwise exits with "No
match".
If one shields R* from the shell with quote marks, for example, then
one
gets a list of all ports starting with R or r, and there are too
many of
them for comfort.
f...@mac:~:125 $ port list R*
R @2.8.0 math/R
That's running from trunk - so MacPorts version is
f...@mac:~:126 $ port
MacPorts 1.8.0
Entering interactive mode... ("help" for help, "quit" to quit)
[Users/face] > ^D
Goodbye
On my *old* system
f...@x:face:123 $ port
MacPorts 1.600
Entering interactive mode... ("help" for help, "quit" to quit)
[Users/face] > ^D
Goodbye
f...@x:face:124 $ port list R*
f...@x:face:125 $
Looks like you need a newer version of port ;-)
8)
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