PORTLESS(1) BSD General Commands Manual PORTLESS(1)NAMEportless — quickly browse port descriptions
SYNOPSISportless [-dfIiMmp] [-gG 'pattern'] [-P pager] portglob...
portless [-IWw] [-gG 'pattern'] portglob...
DESCRIPTIONportless lets FreeBSD users quickly browse port descriptions given the
port's name or a (shell type) glob.
The options are as follows:
-d Display the pkg-descr file of the port. This is the default.
-f Take the portglob argument literal (not as a shell glob).
-gG 'pattern'
Filter the list of selected files with grep(1) . Option -G dif‐
fers from -g only by using fgrep rather than grep.
-I 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.
-i Display the distinfo file of the port.
-M Display the Makefile file of the port.
-m Display the pkg-message file of the port.
-p Display the pkg-plist file of the port.
-P pager Use the specified pager program to display matching files. This
overrides the setting of the PAGER environment variable.
-w Rather than browsing files inside the ports tree just echo the
names of directories matching portglob to stdout.
-W Like -w but echoes just the last two components of the direc‐
tory (i.e. category/portname ) to stdout.
Options -W and -w are incompatible with all other options.
ENVIRONMENT
The portless command uses the following environment variables:
PAGER defaults to “less -e”
PORTSDIR defaults to /usr/ports
FILES
/usr/ports/*/*/*
EXAMPLES
The following are examples of typical usage of the portless command:
portless cvsweb\*
portless lang/\*doc
portless 'www/*python*'
SEE ALSO
The ports_glob(1) command (part of the ports-mgmt/portupgrade port),
grep(1).
AUTHOR
The portless utility and this manual page were written by Martin
Kammerhofer ⟨mkamm@gmx.net⟩.
BSD September 21, 2007 BSD
