how to install all p5-* one shot

Herbert J. Skuhra h.skuhra at gmail.com
Mon Jan 26 04:58:56 PST 2009


2009/1/26 Saifi Khan <saifi.khan at twincling.org>:
> Hi all:
>
> There are many PERL packages in ports whose names are prefixed with p5-* .
>
> How does one install all the p5-* packages one shot ?
>
> Is there a way one can do it with the options available in ports
> or does one need to write a script to locate all the dir names
> starting with p5-* ?
>
> Any pointer in this direction will be appreciated.

% cd /usr/ports
% find . -name "p5\-*" | wc -l
    3360

Good idea? Then try:

% sudo portmaster -i */p5\-*

- Herbert


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