How to find package name

[Jonathan T. Sage]

fbsd_user wrote:

> What is the sure fired way to get the correct spelling  of the 
> package name to use with pkg_add -r  command?
> 
pkg_info | grep start.of.package.name

i.e.

# pkg_info | grep emacs
xemacs-21.4.14      This port tracks the...
xemacs-packages-10.0 Basic...

*snips not included*

hope this helps, happy holidays ~j


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