[25026] trunk/base/doc/portfile.7

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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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