Well it was a feature request.. but if you say this runs we don't disturb busy 
volunteering people..

Dan

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Aug 22, 2025 15:46:57 Michael Hekeler <mich...@hekeler.com>:

>> but I can't do this:
>> wiz# ls -d /var/db/pkg/nginx* | pkg_check
> 
> 
> pkg_check(8) will check consistency of ALL installed packages when
> executed without package name as an argument.
> However I don't understand what problem you are trying to solve I think
> you want to execute pkg_check(8) with the output of ls(1) as argument.
> This is exactly what xargs(1) does. From its manpage "...construct argument
> list(s) and execute utility".
> So your command would be:
>   $ ls -d /var/db/pkg/nginx* | xargs pkg_check

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