On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 11:35, Tom Vilot wrote: > Mike Jeays wrote: > > >Thanks very much. They both installed fine once I was told where they > >are! > > > > My avenue of last resort is this: > > cd /usr/ports > find . -type f -name pkg-descr | xargs grep -i <name> > > where <name> is what I remember the program name to be (cdrecord, etc) > > Also kinda handy if you have no idea what the name is but you know you > want something like, say, "audio compression": > > cd /usr/ports/audio > find . -type f -name pkg-descr | xargs grep -i compres > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
I tried 'find /usr/ports -name "mkiso*"' before submitting my question. It yielded nothing because mkisofs is 'hidden' inside cdrtools. I guess I ought to have known this, as I have used if for a couple of years, but I had forgotten. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"