Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:08:23 -0500 From: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> To: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org> Cc: Craig Boston <craig@yekse.gank.org>, Andy Fawcett <andy@athame.co.uk>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> Subject: Re: Does a port contain 'kdict'? Message-ID: <20060215150823.GC58140@numachi.com> In-Reply-To: <200602151145.k1FBjGA2041338@peedub.jennejohn.org> References: <fullermd@over-yonder.net> <20060215083141.GP80050@over-yonder.net> <200602151145.k1FBjGA2041338@peedub.jennejohn.org>
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On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 12:45:16PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
>
> "Matthew D. Fuller" writes:
> > On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 09:29:50PM -0600 I heard the voice of
> > Craig Boston, and lo! it spake thus:
> > >
> > > find /usr/ports -name 'pkg-plist' -exec grep -H kdict \{\} \;
> > >
> > > Now I'm sure someone will post a much more efficient method
> > > using xargs or some such :)
> >
> > find /usr/ports -depth 3 -name 'pkg-plist' -print | \
> > xargs grep -H kdict
> >
> > 8-]
> >
>
> portsearch -f bin/kdict
>
> /usr/ports/sysutils/portsearch
All very useful responses. This latter seems appealing, as I trying
to empower a very new UNIX user to the FreeBSD ports system.
Is there a website that also exposes this info? To wit, I could
plug 'kdict' into a search box, and have aport name be presented?
>
> ---
> Gary Jennejohn / garyjATjennejohnDOTorg gjATfreebsdDOTorg garyjATdenxDOTde
>
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