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Date:      Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:23:07 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org>
Subject:   Re: /usr/local/bin/www binary... does what?
Message-ID:  <20020426162307.W56548@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020425231327.Y1928-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com>; from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com on Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 11:15:39PM -0700
References:  <20020425231327.Y1928-100000@66-75-1-142.san.rr.com>

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On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 11:15:39PM -0700, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> I was thinking of aliasing "w3m" to "www" since it is easier to type, when,
> after doing `which www` to see if this was already in my $PATH, I found
> that /usr/local/bin/www existed -- the hairy thing is that it is manpageless.
> 
> What -- short of maybe doing a `strings www | more` -- can I do to find out
> what this, where it came from, and if it is safe to run?  www.Thanks.com

If it's in /usr/local, it's probably there because of a port.

The output of "grep bin/www /var/db/pkg/*/+CONTENTS" might (will,
because I have it too and checked it) give you an answer.

Edwin

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