Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 09:23:19 +0000 From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Setting up an alias for 'pkg info | awk' Message-ID: <2144033.K6Q1fOgUqN@curlew.lan> In-Reply-To: <BLU437-SMTP5127A51A909BBF868937B4F64C0@phx.gbl> References: <mailman.60.1421409601.72162.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <BLU436-SMTP220A1C5AFBDA897CC34F219F64F0@phx.gbl> <BLU437-SMTP5127A51A909BBF868937B4F64C0@phx.gbl>
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On Saturday 17 Jan 2015 14:29:22 Manish Jain wrote:
> I am trying to list out all the ports on my system with a Bash shell alias :
>
> alias pia="pkg info | awk '{print $1}'"
>
> But this alias simply prints the output of 'pkg info'.
>
> Is there some way to do this ?
Assuming that you're just wanting to get a list of the names of all your
packages you could use:
pkg query -a '%n-%v' # for the full names
pkg query -a %n # for just the names without version numbers
pkg query -a %o # for the origins in /usr/ports
--
Mike Clarke
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