diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml index 4ee8d4b7e6..015f3c9a00 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.xml @@ -349,17 +349,33 @@ R-deps: provided is not needed in order to install the port, so it will not be covered here. + Alternatively, there is another search feature from + ports that achieves the same purpose but with less noise, + the quicksearch feature. This feature + accepts the same parameter as the search + feature. For example, searching for lsof + would return: + + &prompt.root; cd /usr/ports +&prompt.root; make quicksearch name=lsof +Port: lsof-4.87.a,7 +Path: /usr/ports/sysutils/lsof +Info: Lists information about open files (similar to fstat(1)) + For more in-depth searching you can also use make search - key=string where + key=string or + make quicksearch + key=string, where string is some text to search for. This searches port names, comments, descriptions and dependencies and can be used to find ports which relate to a particular subject if you do not know the name of the program you are looking for. - In both of these cases, the search string is - case-insensitive. Searching for LSOF will + In both of these cases (search + and quicksearch), the search string + is case-insensitive. Searching for LSOF will yield the same results as searching for lsof.