From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 6 03:07:27 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EA381065675 for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2008 03:07:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prad@towardsfreedom.com) Received: from pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 032278FC1A for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2008 03:07:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prad@towardsfreedom.com) Received: from pd4mr6so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr6so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.69]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0K20009GOU0AD2F0@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:07:22 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml3so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.147]) by pd4mr6so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0K20003UUU0AJI30@pd4mr6so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:07:22 -0600 (MDT) Received: from gom.home ([70.67.160.176]) by l-daemon (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0K20004KYU091P60@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:07:21 -0600 (MDT) Received: from gom.home (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gom.home (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEA09B839 for ; Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:07:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:07:18 -0700 From: prad In-reply-to: <517089.19874.qm@web63910.mail.re1.yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20080605200718.40ba0512@gom.home> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <517089.19874.qm@web63910.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: list files in FreeBSD ports tree package X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:07:27 -0000 On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 19:37:42 -0700 (PDT) Camilo Reyes wrote: > The best way to do searches on a BSD system is to use good old > 'locate,' or even 'find / -name .' > i think you can also look in /var/db/pkg or do pkg_info | grep WHATEVER if i understood the original post correctly. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's