How to find out which ports contains a specified command.

[Paul Schmehl]

--On April 5, 2009 6:13:57 PM -0400 illoai at gmail.com wrote:

> 2009/4/5 Peter Wang <peterwang at vip.qq.com>:
>>
>> for example, after i installed pfsense, which is based on freebsd
>> release 7.1, i found adduser command is missing.
>>
>> so how to find out which ports contains `adduser' command?
>> thanks for your replies.
>>
>
> % which adduser
> /usr/sbin/adduser
>
> Thus it is part of the base system, installed through /usr/src
> rather than /usr/ports.
>
> Also, as you are running (essentially) 7.x, this is probably
> better on freebsd-questions than current.

I think you misunderstood his question.

This would be one way to do it:

 find /usr/ports/ -type f -exec grep -sq adduser {} \; -print

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