Routine to remove MacPorts should recommend a shell

[grahamperrin@…]

At ​How do I remove or uninstall MacPorts?

MacPorts can be removed by issuing the following command from within Terminal:

sudo rm -rf \
/opt/local \
/Applications/MacPorts \
/Applications/DarwinPorts \
/Library/Tcl/macports1.0 \
/Library/Tcl/darwinports1.0 \
/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.* \
/Library/StartupItems/DarwinPortsStartup \
/Library/Receipts/MacPorts*.pkg \
/Library/Receipts/DarwinPorts*.pkg

That assumes a shell such as
sh

When the user's shell is
tcsh
the result is unexpected, at least the repetition and ? question marks appear peculiar.

[afb@…]

see also ticket #12799

[markd@…]

How is the result unexpected how? Be specific. Life is short, and I'd rather not have to run the Tcl shell just to find out what you already know.

[grahamperrin@…]

Sorry for the lazy report.

In tcsh,

Last login: Sat Jan 19 11:01:13 on ttyp7
Welcome to Darwin!
[grahamperrin:~] gjp22% sudo rm -rf \
/opt/local \
/Applications/MacPorts \
/Applications/DarwinPorts \
/Library/Tcl/macports1.0 \
/Library/Tcl/darwinports1.0 \
/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.* \
/Library/StartupItems/DarwinPortsStartup \
/Library/Receipts/MacPorts*.pkg \
/Library/Receipts/DarwinPorts*.pkg? /opt/local \
? /Applications/MacPorts \
? /Applications/DarwinPorts \
? /Library/Tcl/macports1.0 \
? /Library/Tcl/darwinports1.0 \
? /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.* \
? /Library/StartupItems/DarwinPortsStartup \
? /Library/Receipts/MacPorts*.pkg \
? /Library/Receipts/DarwinPorts*.pkg

[afb@…]

Fixed, now says you need bash.

[grahamperrin@…]

Thanks!

Graham

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