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Date:      Tue, 22 Feb 2022 20:36:02 -0800
From:      Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE amd64, Perl, and URI: : Escape
Message-ID:  <86o82y2o99.fsf@bay.localnet>
In-Reply-To: <093c8238-7d42-f04b-6597-12cd229c59d8@holgerdanske.com> (David Christensen's message of "Tue, 22 Feb 2022 17:25:09 -0800")
References:  <dfd00c62-33dd-2bb1-a233-d96d0c76cad8@holgerdanske.com> <20220222035845.3A03A37BE335@ary.qy> <CAFKhKgr7vCtEuWDunkoR7GZOHBETaXdwqrFRjM_cr1aqdXZ1hQ@mail.gmail.com> <093c8238-7d42-f04b-6597-12cd229c59d8@holgerdanske.com>

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David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> writes:

> On 2/22/22 07:12, Andrew Gould wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 9:59 PM John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
>>=20
>>> It appears that David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> said:
>
>>>> Is there a CLI tool, WWW page, etc., that lets me list and/or search t=
he
>>>> contents of FreeBSD packages?
>>>
>>> Not easily.  I have the ports installed so I can grep through the
>>> pkg-plist files.
>
>> I=E2=80=99ve found http://www.freshports.org to be very useful.
>
>
> I am unable to formulate a search that finds URI::Escape.  This
> produces results similar to 'pkg search':
>
> https://www.freshports.org/search.php?stype=3Dlongdescription&method=3Dma=
tch&query=3DURI%3A%3AEscape&num=3D10&orderby=3Dcategory&orderbyupdown=3Dasc=
&search=3DSearch&format=3Dhtml&branch=3Dhead
>

You might want to look into the pkg-provides port.  It describes itself
as: 'Pkg plugin for querying which package provides a particular file'.
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Carl Johnson		carlj@peak.org




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