[OpenIndiana-discuss] Where can I see real cmdlines of using pkg command?

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 28/08/2013 20:21, Harry Putnam wrote:
> I'm not getting enough out of man pkg to really get the idea.
>
> The real basic stuff yeah ok.
> But I'm thinking you can do things like list all your installed
> packages.
>
> The man page mentions User commans list and -a as showing installed
> pkgs.
> If you wanted to know which editors were installed. How to do that?
>     things like `pkg list editor'.. fails with:
>
>     no packages matching 'editor' allowed by installed incorporations,
>     or image variants that are known or installed
>
> but this: `pkg list vim' shows:
>    NAME (PUBLISHER)      VERSION               IFO
>    editor/vim        7.2.308-0.151.1.8          i--
>
> So it shows  `editor' right under the NAME column. So what exaclty
> does `pkg' expect in the way of telling it what to search for.
> Do I have to do each individual pkg and now all the correct names or
> what?

Use 'pkg search editor', as the command suggests, 'search' is
for searching...
You also get the package name responsible for a file in
your tree:
myhost#  pkg search /usr/bin/ls
INDEX      ACTION VALUE      PACKAGE
path       file   usr/bin/ls pkg:/SUNWcs at 0.5.11-0.151.1.8