From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 6 14:54:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5617437B417 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 14:54:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 12244 invoked by uid 100); 6 Apr 2002 22:53:52 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <15535.31872.55307.98043@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 16:53:52 -0600 To: =?ISO-8859-1?B?U/hyZW4gTmVpZ2FhcmQ=?= Cc: Bill Moran , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[2]: Are my questions stupid, to hard or am I just unlucky In-Reply-To: <9143972148.20020406201626@e-box.dk> References: <14034112871.20020406173207@e-box.dk> <3CAF2F13.5040104@potentialtech.com> <9143972148.20020406201626@e-box.dk> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.51 (Python 2.2 on FreeBSD/i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <9143972148.20020406201626@e-box.dk>, S=F8ren Neigaard typed: > Saturday, April 06, 2002, 7:23:31 PM, Bill wrote: > BM> As an answer to your actual question, a slow, and time-consuming = search > BM> of the "sysutils" and/or "net" part of the ports tree may be bene= ficial. > BM> Sometimes you just have to take some time to do the research (the= re's a > BM> LOT of ports out there!) >=20 > I belive you, but how would one search the tree for something like > this? >=20 > find . -name "availability" find . -name pkg-descr | xargs grep availability would probably be better. Trying terms other than availability that might describe what you're looking for is also recommended. > Maybe you could give me some pointers here for the future, so that I > can spare you from some questions :) man -k does keyword searches on the synopsis of the manual pages. That's worth trying as well, to see if the tools you want are in core instead of the ports tree. =09=09=09=09http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more inform= ation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message