[25026] trunk/base/doc/portfile.7
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Fri May 11 10:49:29 PDT 2007
Revision: 25026
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/25026
Author: eridius at macports.org
Date: 2007-05-11 10:49:29 -0700 (Fri, 11 May 2007)
Log Message:
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Rewrite description of delete command
Modified Paths:
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trunk/base/doc/portfile.7
Modified: trunk/base/doc/portfile.7
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--- trunk/base/doc/portfile.7 2007-05-11 17:47:39 UTC (rev 25025)
+++ trunk/base/doc/portfile.7 2007-05-11 17:49:29 UTC (rev 25026)
@@ -1599,10 +1599,12 @@
Built-in shorthand alternative to "file copy".
.It Ic move
Built-in shorthand alternative to "file rename".
-.It Ic delete
-Built-in shorthand alternative to "file delete". Required over the latter for Portfiles that perform deleting
-operations on directories while building the port on Mac OS X 10.3 and earlier, due to a Tcl anomaly on those systems
-that causes "file delete" to fail.
+.It Ic delete Ar
+Deletes each of the given files/directories. Behaves similarly to
+.Ic file delete -force
+except that
+.Ic file delete -force
+will fail to delete directories properly on 10.3 systems.
.It Ic touch
Built-in command mimicking the BSD touch command.
.It Ic ln
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