Date: 28 Jan 2002 23:00:41 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Dan Trainor <dan@ript.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports browser Message-ID: <yxn0yxljza.0yx@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20020128041118.GA56247@hades.hell.gr> References: <013601c1a369$087651b0$0100a8c0@broken> <20020128041118.GA56247@hades.hell.gr>
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> On 2002-01-22 10:19:59, Dan Trainor wrote:
> > Anyone know of an ncurses-based program or something that will let me
> > browse my ports tree, and read me pkg-comment, pkg-descr, and plg-plist?
> > I'd just like a more orderly way of browsing the list, and I don't feel
> > like: cd port1; cat pkg*; (read for a while, ok) cd ..; cd port1; ....
> > etc etc. With over what was it, 1600 ports I believe, that becomes a
> > pretty boring task.
These work reasonably well:
netscape /usr/ports
lynx /usr/ports
xemacs /usr/ports
Or this (slowly -- it's better to redirect into a file than use less):
find /usr/ports -name pkg-descr | xargs head -n 100000 | less
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