<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Rainer,<div><br><div><div><div>On Oct 11, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Rainer Müller wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 2010-10-11 19:21 , David Gentry wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">6. In my terminal window, I ran a command to list all inactive ports.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I picked several to run a "port activate" command on. For example, I<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">said, "port activate [apache2]" and "port activate [mysql5]." I<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">received the error message in the subject line of this email.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">What should I do now? I need my ports back!<br></blockquote><br>Why did you use these brackets? They are interpreted as wildcard and in<br>the end result in a single character. Actually that should be an error,<br>seems to be a bug with the wildcard expansion in port.<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div><div>I'm not sure why that should be an error? There are 3 ports with single letter names:</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div>% port echo ?</div></div><div><div>e </div></div><div><div>q </div></div><div><div>R </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The glob pattern "[apache2]" will return one these (e), while the glob pattern "[mysql5]" will return another (q).</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div>% port echo [apache2]</div><div>e </div></div><div><div>% port echo '[mysql5]'</div></div><div><div>q </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't see an error. Am I missing something?</div><div><br></div><div>James</div></body></html>