On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 08:39:51PM -0800, John Klos wrote:
> >pkg_info | awk '{ print $1 }' | pkg_delete -f
> 
> pkg_delete -f `pkg_info | awk '{ print $1 }'` would work.
> 
> >>>pkg_delete -f `ls /var/db/pkg`?
> 
> That would work, too.

Both of those examples could potentially create a command line that is
too long.  For situations I like to use find:

find /var/db/pkg -maxdepth 1 ! -path /var/db/pkg -type d -exec pkg_delete -f {} \;

This should work, but I don't feel like testing it at the moment.

> 
> John
> 

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