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PORTLESS(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual PORTLESS(1)

portless
quickly browse port descriptions

portless [-dfIiMmp] [-gG 'pattern'] [-P pager] portglob...

portless [-IWw] [-gG 'pattern'] portglob...

portless lets FreeBSD users quickly browse port descriptions given the port's name or a (shell type) glob.

The options are as follows:

Display the pkg-descr file of the port. This is the default.
Take the portglob argument literal (not as a shell glob).
'pattern'
Filter the list of selected files with grep(1) . Option -G differs from -g only by using fgrep rather than grep.
Ignore case when matching portglob against the ports tree. This option is only effective if portglob contains at least one unquoted globbing meta-character ( ‘*’, ‘?’, or ‘[’ ). Used together with -g it also greps case insensitively.
Display the distinfo file of the port.
Display the Makefile file of the port.
Display the pkg-message file of the port.
Display the pkg-plist file of the port.
pager
Use the specified pager program to display matching files. This overrides the setting of the PAGER environment variable.
Rather than browsing files inside the ports tree just echo the names of directories matching portglob to stdout.
Like -w but echoes just the last two components of the directory (i.e. category/portname ) to stdout.

Options -W and -w are incompatible with all other options.

The portless command uses the following environment variables:
defaults to “less -e
defaults to /usr/ports

/usr/ports/*/*/*
 

The following are examples of typical usage of the portless command:

portless cvsweb\*
portless lang/\*doc
portless 'www/*python*'

The ports_glob(1) command (part of the ports-mgmt/portupgrade port), grep(1).

The portless utility and this manual page were written by Martin Kammerhofer ⟨mkamm@gmx.net⟩.
September 21, 2007 FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE

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