> On Oct 23, 2018, at 15:09, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Is there any way to find our without manually checking each and every port
>> in myports.txt?
>
> Sure, get a list of only the port names you want to know about. For example
> you could do that using:
>
> awk '{print $1}' myports.txt
>
> Then ask MacPorts which of them aren't installed. For example:
>
> port echo not installed and \( ImageMagick MPlayer \)
>
> Or:
>
> port echo not installed and \( $(awk '{print $1}' myports.txt) \)
Thank you. Unfortunately, the list is huge:
MrMuscle:~ mnewman$ port echo not installed and \( $(awk '{print $1}'
myports.txt) \) | wc -l
218
And includes things like curl, wget, gzip and others.
Makes me thing something went seriously wrong with restore_ports.tcl.
