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Subject: Re: checking against plist
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On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 09:06:36PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net> wrote:
> > Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote:
> >
> >>       Once a port is installed, is there any of using the plist (or
> >> aother mechanism) to check whether the files ar still there?
> >> (After, say, a system crash.)
> >
> > You are missing a few words up there, so hard to understand your exact
> > problem/question.  You can simply list the contents of the plist and check
> > whether those files still exist following a crash.
> >
> > --
> > Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>
> 
> pkg_info -g (at least that's what it should be IMHO)?
> 
> If this doesn't exist, let me know and I'll see about adding that
> feature to pkg_info...

pkg_info -g should work.  What the OP wants is more or less this:

for i in `pkg_info -Ea`; do pkg_info -g $i; done

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