Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 16:53:52 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1018565632.6850c6@mired.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?B?U/hyZW4gTmVpZ2FhcmQ=?= <neigaard@e-box.dk> Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[2]: Are my questions stupid, to hard or am I just unlucky Message-ID: <15535.31872.55307.98043@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <9143972148.20020406201626@e-box.dk> References: <14034112871.20020406173207@e-box.dk> <3CAF2F13.5040104@potentialtech.com> <9143972148.20020406201626@e-box.dk>
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In <9143972148.20020406201626@e-box.dk>, S=F8ren Neigaard <neigaard@e-b= ox.dk> typed: > Saturday, April 06, 2002, 7:23:31 PM, Bill wrote: > BM> As an answer to your actual question, a slow, and time-consuming = search > BM> of the "sysutils" and/or "net" part of the ports tree may be bene= ficial. > BM> Sometimes you just have to take some time to do the research (the= re's a > BM> LOT of ports out there!) >=20 > I belive you, but how would one search the tree for something like > this? >=20 > find . -name "availability" find . -name pkg-descr | xargs grep availability would probably be better. Trying terms other than availability that might describe what you're looking for is also recommended. > Maybe you could give me some pointers here for the future, so that I > can spare you from some questions :) man -k does keyword searches on the synopsis of the manual pages. That's worth trying as well, to see if the tools you want are in core instead of the ports tree. =09<mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>=09=09=09http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more inform= ation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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