port command & arguments

[Jan Stary]

On Apr 08 09:00:24, rjvbertin at gmail.com wrote:
> These days I spend my time switching back and forth between Linux/Debian and OS X. The various package management tools I use on the former (apt, apt-get, aptitude) all have a very similar syntax, but port has a number of just-or-completely different command names. The one that I mix up most is info vs. show, but I rarely get the commands for listing dependencies right at the first try either.
> I've created a duplicate of the action_array's info entry so that I can do 'port show', but how possible would it be to create aliases?

You can easily create aliases in your shell,
without any need to touch 'port'.

> (One could even think of a table that's read from file...)

At this point, one could tell that you conme from linux
even if you hadn't said so .

> I admit, my memory is no longer what it used to be,
> but nowadays I don't really care anymore if I can master
> all of ls's options without referring to the docs :)

So why do you care about remembering port's options without the docs?