Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 18:22:52 +0000 (UTC) From: Christopher Nehren <apeiron+usenet@coitusmentis.info> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to find which port has a given executable Message-ID: <slrnd43d5j.4ds.apeiron%2Busenet@prophecy.dyndns.org> References: <20050323173313.GA94954@rajarajan.homeunix.net> <200503230936.54842.ringworm01@gmail.com> <4241ACE3.5080304@dial.pipex.com>
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On 2005-03-23, Alex Zbyslaw scribbled these
curious markings:
> % find /usr/ports -type f -name pkg-plist -exec egrep -H epstopdf {} \;
Just a bit of nitpickery: I've found that piping the output to xargs
rather than using find's exec produces faster results. Plus, you (most
of the time) don't need to use constructs like {} \;. :)
Best Regards,
Christopher Nehren
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