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Subject: Re: Is there a way to compare what is in the ports tree with what
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Pollywog writes:

>  > 	dir /var/d/pkg | grep <portname>
>  
>  My Linux systems have a "dir" command but my FreeBSD does not.
>  Is there something I need to install?

	My bad - "dir" is a longstanding alias for "ls -al !* | more"



					Robert Huff