pkg_add and regex

[Michael]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 11:01:04PM +1100, Chris Henderson wrote:
> I been trying to install firefox and seems like regex doesn't work
> with pkg_add when I look for the package; pkg_add -iv firefox or
> pkg_add -iv "*firefox*" doesn't install anything.
> 
> I have to ftp to the package directory and find out the exact name of
> the firefox package and then do pkg_add in order to install it.
> 
> Also noticed things are different with mutt. If I do pkg_add -iv mutt,
> I get a list to choose from.
> 
> Is there any easy way around installing firefox or packages whose
> names are not so obvious?
> 
> Thanks.

I download the index.txt file, grep the file I'm looking for,  then copy and paste into my pkg_add command.
I have to be on an linux box right now, so can't show the grep command and response :(

Mike

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