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Subject: Re: svn commit: r459945 - in head/ports-mgmt: . pkg-provides
 pkg-provides/files
To: Kurt Jaeger <pi@FreeBSD.org>, Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>
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From: Rodrigo Osorio <rodrigo@FreeBSD.org>
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On 01/25/18 16:49, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hi!
>
>>>> pkg provides is a you provides like, it tells you about packages you
>>>> want to install.
>> I have no idea what yum provides does. How can it know which packages I want to
>> install?
> If you give it a path, it tells you which package has a file for that
> path. That way, if you ask:
>
> pkg provides /usr/local/bin/perl
>
> it returns a list of packages with that file/path.
>
Hi,

To limit the number of replies just add a '$' character at the end of 
the query

$ pkg provides '/usr/local/bin/perl$'

Hope it helps,
- rodrigo