From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Sun Jan 31 10:06:00 2010
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 402DD1065670
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:06:00 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk)
Received: from relay.pcl-ipout01.plus.net (relay.pcl-ipout01.plus.net
	[212.159.7.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D00BB8FC14
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:05:59 +0000 (UTC)
X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true
X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEADPkZEtUXeby/2dsb2JhbADWQYRFBA
Received: from relay01.plus.net ([84.93.230.242])
	by relay.pcl-ipout01.plus.net with ESMTP; 31 Jan 2010 10:05:58 +0000
Received: from [84.92.153.232] (helo=curlew.milibyte.co.uk)
	by relay01.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1NbWgo-0000x4-8k
	for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:05:58 +0000
Received: by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with local (Exim 4.71)
	(envelope-from <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>) id 1NbWgn-0004B3-Sc
	for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:05:58 +0000
From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:05:57 +0000
User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10
References: <881950.49266.qm@web31101.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
	<a9f4a3861001301542w4af76598i2983b6f3aacb275e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <a9f4a3861001301542w4af76598i2983b6f3aacb275e@mail.gmail.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: inline
Message-Id: <201001311005.57799.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: <locally generated>
X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk
X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk);
	SAEximRunCond expanded to false
X-Plusnet-Relay: 1eff17653d7b0032337e41efb44223e4
Subject: Re: Pain finding packages
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:06:00 -0000

On Saturday 30 January 2010, Kurt Buff wrote:

> For make, do the following, after csup (or an alternative):
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0cd /usr/ports
> =A0 =A0 =A0make search name=3Dsamba | less
> or
> =A0 =A0 =A0cd /usr/ports
> =A0 =A0 =A0make search key=3Dsamba | less
>
> Then browse that list to see what most particularly applies to your
> needs.

Or, for more compact output, try this script:

	#!/bin/sh
	cd /usr/ports
	make search name=3D$1 | egrep "^(Port|Path|Info|Moved)" | less

=2D-=20
Mike Clarke