From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 28 22:56:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44C1A37B416 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:56:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E174BBD60; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:56:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA03229; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:56:30 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g0T70f702012; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 23:00:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Dan Trainor Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports browser References: <013601c1a369$087651b0$0100a8c0@broken> <20020128041118.GA56247@hades.hell.gr> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 28 Jan 2002 23:00:41 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20020128041118.GA56247@hades.hell.gr> Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On 2002-01-22 10:19:59, Dan Trainor wrote: > > Anyone know of an ncurses-based program or something that will let me > > browse my ports tree, and read me pkg-comment, pkg-descr, and plg-plist? > > I'd just like a more orderly way of browsing the list, and I don't feel > > like: cd port1; cat pkg*; (read for a while, ok) cd ..; cd port1; .... > > etc etc. With over what was it, 1600 ports I believe, that becomes a > > pretty boring task. These work reasonably well: netscape /usr/ports lynx /usr/ports xemacs /usr/ports Or this (slowly -- it's better to redirect into a file than use less): find /usr/ports -name pkg-descr | xargs head -n 100000 | less To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message