NAME

portless —

quickly browse port descriptions

SYNOPSIS

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:

-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 differs 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 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:

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

portless cvsweb\*

portless lang/\*doc

portless 'www/*python*'

The portless utility and this manual page were written by Martin Kammerhofer ⟨mkamm@gmx.net⟩.