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PORTLESS(1)		     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  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  un-
	       quoted  globbing  meta-character  (  `*', `?', or `[' ). Used to-
	       gether 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>.

FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly     September 21, 2007		     PORTLESS(1)

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