On Jun 18, 2007, at 11:31 PM, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
I know how to do "port search foo" but that will only work on
application names. I'd like to search the long descriptions. How is
that done?
malcolm
Rather than struggling to do the search in UNIX, an editor is better
suited for the task. You can grab the info using the Terminal, send
it to a temporary file, open it in your favorite editor, then do a
grep search for whatever pattern you need...
I.m not quite sure what platform you are working on, but on OS X the
editor extra-ordinaire is BBEdit, so from my Bash Terminal I can the
command listed on any one of the lines from ( 1 ) thru ( 7 ).
Line ( 7 ) is the easiest to use...
[2007.19.06](12:47PM) -> [username] ~
( 1 ) $ port info long_description:apache >> ~/Desktop/
port_long_descriptions.txt;open -a /Applications/BBEdit.app ~/Desktop/
port_long_descriptions.txt
[2007.19.06](12:47PM) -> [username] ~
( 2 ) $ fpath=~/Desktop/port_long_descriptions.txt ; port info
long_description:apache >> $fpath ; open -a /Applications/BBEdit.app
$fpath
[2007.19.06](12:47PM) -> [username] ~
( 3 ) $ apath=/Applications/BBEdit.app ; fpath=~/Desktop/
port_long_descriptions.txt ; port info long_description:apache >>
$fpath ; open -a $apath $fpath
OR if you only need it temporarily :
[2007.19.06](12:47PM) -> [username] ~
( 4 ) $ port info long_description:apache >> /tmp/
port_long_descriptions.txt;open -a /Applications/BBEdit.app /tmp/
port_long_descriptions.txt
[2007.19.06](12:47PM) -> [username] ~
( 5 ) $ fpath=/tmp/port_long_descriptions.txt ; port info
long_description:apache >> $fpath ; open -a /Applications/BBEdit.app
$fpath
[2007.19.06](12:47PM) -> [username] ~
( 6 ) $ apath=/Applications/BBEdit.app ; fpath=/tmp/
port_long_descriptions.txt ; port info long_description:apache >>
$fpath ; open -a $apath $fpath
OR
( 7 ) $ fsubj=apache ; apath=/Applications/BBEdit.app ; fpath=/tmp/
port_long_descriptions.txt ; port info long_description:$fsubj >>
$fpath ; open -a $apath $fpath
These work very well for me on OS X.
You could convert it into a small shell script if you think you might
use it now and then...
Hope this helps !
Bill Hernandez
Plano, Texas
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