Deriving base port/package names

[Roger Marquis]

Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> what would be a proper sort of sed command to extract
> _just_ the port/package names, without the version numbers attached?

This has changed in the past so may not currently be 100% correct but
these should work:

   awk -F'-[0-9]' '{ print $1 }'

or:

   sed 's/-[0-9].*$//'

It's a good question in any case and the answer{,s} should probably be
added to pkg(8)'s EXAMPLES.

Roger