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Subject: Is there a way to compare what is in the ports tree with what is
 installed?
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Brett Davidson writes:

>  ie. If I had a particular version of the ports tree on a server,
>  how could I check to see if any of the programs in that tree were
>  actually installed?
>  
>  Is there a simple command or sequence of commands to do this?

	dir /var/d/pkg | grep <portname>


				Robert Huff