port "cask" -- installing prebuilt binaries

Arno Hautala arno at alum.wpi.edu
Thu Aug 6 18:34:31 UTC 2020


> On 6 Aug 2020, at 14:06, Ken Cunningham <ken.cunningham.webuse at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Along with name-suffix, a category was actually one of the first suggestions in the original post 50 posts ago, but how does one see which ports you have installed that are members of that category?
> 
> with a name suffix, easy.
> 
> port -v installed | grep binary


Assuming a category of “binary”:

> port echo category:binary and installed


There’s also `search` for identifying ports in a specific category:

> port search --category binary


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