Searching the port tree with portmaster?

Kimmo Paasiala kpaasial at gmail.com
Thu Aug 15 16:19:41 UTC 2013


There's also ports-mgmt/psearch. Works fine for me.

-Kimmo


On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 6:45 PM, LuKreme <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:

>
> On 15 Aug 2013, at 06:33 , Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > whereis sudo
>
> Sure, if sudo is installed. Sudo was not installed, so I had to search the
> ports tree for it. Same with openssl.
>
> I setup an alias
>
> alias pf='find /usr/ports -maxdepth 2 -type d | grep -i '
>
> but was afraid I was missing a command in portmaster.
>
> On 15 Aug 2013, at 00:56 , Sergey V. Dyatko <sergey.dyatko at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > man ports
>
> > /search[enter]
>
> cd /usr/ports && make search name=pear-
> cd /usr/ports && make search name=pear- xname='ht(tp|ml)'
>
> Well, OK. That seems a lot more effort, and loses your current directory,
> but that does work. It's fugly though.
>
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