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Date:      Mon, 6 Apr 2009 11:25:14 +0200
From:      Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org>
To:        Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists_nada@tx.rr.com>
Cc:        Peter Wang <peterwang@vip.qq.com>, "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How to find out which ports contains a specified command.
Message-ID:  <08809CCC-DED8-43E6-B970-8E6A7F158540@boosten.org>
In-Reply-To: <2B08274BD5B112278E9DF1D2@Macintosh-2.local>
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On 6 apr 2009, at 01:33, Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> wrote:

> --On April 5, 2009 6:13:57 PM -0400 illoai@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> 2009/4/5 Peter Wang <peterwang@vip.qq.com>:
>>>
>>> for example, after i installed pfsense, which is based on freebsd
>>> release 7.1, i found adduser command is missing.
>>>
>>> so how to find out which ports contains `adduser' command?
>>> thanks for your replies.
>>>
>>
>> % which adduser
>> /usr/sbin/adduser
>>
>> Thus it is part of the base system, installed through /usr/src
>> rather than /usr/ports.
>>
>> Also, as you are running (essentially) 7.x, this is probably
>> better on freebsd-questions than current.
>
> I think you misunderstood his question.
>
> This would be one way to do it:
>
> find /usr/ports/ -type f -exec grep -sq adduser {} \; -print


How about man pkg_info

 From memory: pkg_info -W /usr/sbin/adduser

Peter

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