Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 21:25:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net> Cc: Nathan Mace <nmace85@yahoo.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: favorite ports? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10110032117280.82306-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <jobsjolcsj.sjo@localhost.localdomain>
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On 3 Oct 2001, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> writes:
>
> > $ cd /usr/ports
> > $ find . -maxdepth 3 -name pkg-descr | xargs more
>
> Nice idea. I wondered by find's -exec wasn't used and I
> found out why, but at least it starts faster:
>
> find /usr/ports -maxdepth 3 -name pkg-descr -exec \
> sh -c "echo @@@@@ {} @@@@@ ; less -P '%f' {} " \;
>
I use this script in /usr/ports (which I call getdescr) with
the name of the category I'm interested in, e.g., ./getdescr mail | more
#!/bin/sh
for i in $1/* ; do
if [ -d $i ]; then
echo " "
echo $i
echo " "
cat $i/pkg-descr
fi
done
exit;
If send to a file, this produces a nice readable format. The entire
set of pkg-descr files is some 800 or more pages.
I tried to list and comment on a few of the 5000 (at the time--there
are now closer to 6000) software programs in my book; I excluded
foreign-language offerings (about 600) and programming stuff,
concentrating on those of more immediate interest to individual users
(rather than ISPs and sysadmins etc.). Even then it was quite a task.
Annelise
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