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PORTLESS(1)            DragonFly General Commands Manual           PORTLESS(1)


NAME

     portless - quickly browse port descriptions


SYNOPSIS

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


DESCRIPTION

     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.


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>.

DragonFly 6.5-DEVELOPMENT     September 21, 2007     DragonFly 6.5-DEVELOPMENT

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