how to find which port has a given executable

Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Wed Mar 23 13:58:20 PST 2005


On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 12:33:13PM -0500, Rajarajan Rajamani wrote:
> Is it possible to find out which port has a particular
> executable/script file ? It took me some time to find
> out if the script epstopdf was in latex or tex or tetex!

pkg_which, from the portupgrade port works very nicely for this.

Roland
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