How to search by package name

[Tong Sun]

Thanks a lot Ruben, for the swift answer.

Yes it works, and
Yes, gsed is what I'm looking for.

thx!!


On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 6:56 PM Ruben Di Battista
<rubendibattista at gmail.com> wrote:
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> https://guide.macports.org/chunked/using.html
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> Here you can find tips on how to tune your regex. You can use a regex expression matching just the port name
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> port search --name --line --regex 'sed$’
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> This returns all the ports ending with *sed.
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> Notably, what are you looking for, I guess, is gsed, i.e. GNU sed.
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> -.     .´  |∞∞∞∞
>   ',  ;    |∞∞∞∞∞∞
>     ˜˜     |∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ RdB
>     ,.,    |∞∞∞∞∞∞
>   .'   '.  |∞∞∞∞
> -'       `’
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> https://rdb.is
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> On 25 January 2021 at 00:50:58, Tong Sun (suntong001 at gmail.com) wrote:
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> How to do a post search by package name?
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> I tried
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> port search sed
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> and astonished to find out it has "gazillion" of hits, :)
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>
> BTW, can any confirm that sed is indeed not in macport pls?
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> thx!