How to find out which ports contains a specified command.

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 21:19:45 -0400
Wesley Shields <wxs at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 01:45:43AM +0200, Alberto Villa wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 10:06 PM, N.J. Mann <njm at njm.me.uk> wrote:
> > > adduser: /usr/sbin/adduser /usr/share/man/en.ISO8859-15/man8/adduser.8 /usr/src/usr.sbin/adduser
> > >
> > > So, it is part of the base system. ?This can be confirmed by searching
> > > the on-line manual, i.e.
> > 
> > anyway, if you're looking for other programs, i can't remember if
> > there is any special way... i think i'd try something like:
> > cd /usr/ports && grep -i "bin/$yourcommand" -f */*/pkg-plist
> 
> This makes two assumptions which are not always true:
> 
> - It assumes $yourcommand lives in ${PREFIX}/bin.
> - It searches only pkg-plist.
> 
> Not all ports install into ${PREFIX}/bin and not all ports use
> pkg-plist.  If you want a more accurate search you're better off
> searching Makefile for the information in PLIST_FILES along with
> pkg-plist.  It is worth noting that even this is not fool-proof since
> some ports use dynamic plist generation so the information is never in
> pkg-plist except for when the plist is built.
> 
> IMO this is a short-coming with ports, and only getting more and more
> noticeable as we expand the number of ports.  I have some ideas on how
> to address this if someone wants to ping me about it off list.
> 

/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portsearch

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Gary Jennejohn