Search for files in not installed ports

Andrew Pantyukhin infofarmer at FreeBSD.org
Thu Apr 24 04:46:09 UTC 2008


On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:10:31PM +0200, Anselm Strauss wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is there an easy way to find the port that will install me a specific file? 
> So far, I only found the following:
> 
> # find /usr/ports -name pkg-plist | xargs -I {} grep -H 'bin/wish' {}

That's the right way to do it, but have a look at portsearch from
ports.


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