On today’s installment of things you already know unless you don’t, have a tip from the fine FreeBSD maintainers I noted when booting recently:
Want to find a specific port, just type the following under
/usr/portsor one its subdirectories:
make search name=<port-name>
or
make search key=<keyword>
I did not know this!
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