Re: FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE amd64, Perl, and URI: : Escape

David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> writes:

> On 2/22/22 07:12, Andrew Gould wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 9:59 PM John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> It appears that David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> said:
>
>>>> Is there a CLI tool, WWW page, etc., that lets me list and/or search the
>>>> contents of FreeBSD packages?
>>>
>>> Not easily.  I have the ports installed so I can grep through the
>>> pkg-plist files.
>
>> I’ve found http://www.freshports.org to be very useful.
>
>
> I am unable to formulate a search that finds URI::Escape.  This
> produces results similar to 'pkg search':
>
> https://www.freshports.org/search.php?stype=longdescription&method=match&query=URI%3A%3AEscape&num=10&orderby=category&orderbyupdown=asc&search=Search&format=html&branch=head
>

You might want to look into the pkg-provides port.  It describes itself
as: 'Pkg plugin for querying which package provides a particular file'.
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