Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:12:45 -0500 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Christopher Nehren <apeiron+usenet@coitusmentis.info> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to find which port has a given executable Message-ID: <c2bcd21c3e9af9c8f219ab0bb9975485@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <slrnd43d5j.4ds.apeiron%2Busenet@prophecy.dyndns.org> References: <20050323173313.GA94954@rajarajan.homeunix.net> <200503230936.54842.ringworm01@gmail.com> <4241ACE3.5080304@dial.pipex.com> <slrnd43d5j.4ds.apeiron%2Busenet@prophecy.dyndns.org>
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On Mar 23, 2005, at 1:22 PM, Christopher Nehren wrote:
> On 2005-03-23, Alex Zbyslaw scribbled these
> curious markings:
>> % find /usr/ports -type f -name pkg-plist -exec egrep -H epstopdf {}
>> \;
>
> Just a bit of nitpickery: I've found that piping the output to xargs
> rather than using find's exec produces faster results. Plus, you (most
> of the time) don't need to use constructs like {} \;. :)
pkg_which epstopdf
...is probably even faster and easier.
--
-Chuck
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