[macports-mgr] A problem

[Moshe Kamensky]

* Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> [01/12/08 15:39]:
> On Dec 1, 2008, at 14:24, Christos Vlachos wrote:
>
>> Dear maintainers,
>> Apologies for using this email address, but couldn't find any other to 
>> address to you. I would appreciate your help on the following problem. I 
>> want to uninstall MacPorts, since I installed it before installing X11 and 
>> Xcode. Now, the problem is that although I follow the command line below, I 
>> get the error:
>>
>> rm: illegal option -- /
>> usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ...
>>        unlink file
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  sudo rm -rf \
>>     /opt/local \
>>     /etc/manpaths.d/macports \
>>     /etc/paths.d/macports \
>>     /Applications/DarwinPorts \
>>     /Applications/MacPorts \
>>     /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.* \
>>     /Library/Receipts/DarwinPorts*.pkg \
>>     /Library/Receipts/MacPorts*.pkg \
>>     /Library/StartupItems/DarwinPortsStartup \
>>     /Library/Tcl/darwinports1.0 \
>>     /Library/Tcl/macports1.0
>>
>>
>> I would really appreciate your help on this. Is there any possible command 
>> line to solve the problem?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Chris
>
> Hi Chris. The command given above is correct. Indeed "--" is not a legal 
> option to "rm", but "--" does not appear in the command provided above. 
> Which command did you actually execute? You should just be able to copy all 
> the above lines and paste them into a Terminal.
>

Maybe rm is a shell alias or function. Try replacing rm with /bin/rm
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