Command: pkginfo (part of pkgtools)
PKGINFO is a command line utility to to display metadata and file
information for installed packages.
Syntax:
Usage PKGINFO: [options] [package]
[options] Options are not case specific. If no options are
provided than /L is assumed by default.
[package] Complex wildcard to specify package(s). Supports things
like fd*pkg, *zip*, ?d*, etc.
Options:
Basic modes of operation:
/H Display help and exit
/N Names of installed packages
/L List installed packages (names, titles, version)
/I Details of installed packages
/D Like /I, but provides more detail information
/W item List only packages that contain a specific file or
directory to find out to which package it belongs.
Mode modifier options:
/R Report missing files
/E List executable files
/A List all files
/U Determine disk usage
/P Pause output, one page at a time
/S wild Search the package information for text matching wild
Miscellaneous options:
/VER Display version information
/NLS lang Use lang translations instead of system setting
// Force using the / for the switch character
Comments:
PKGINFO is a command line utility to to display metadata and file
information for installed packages. Mostly, using it is straight
forward. Just a couple things to note. First, the list of packages
can be limited by using an advanced wildcard. For example, *XMS* and
?D*N all return expected results. Second, is the search option. You
can limit search to only specified packages or by default all packages
will have there metadata searched. The search is basically another
advanced wildcard as well. So, you could do a "pkginfo *fd* /s
gnu*ver*2" and get a list of all packages that whose id contains FD and
contain gnu*ver*2 somewhere in their metadata. You can also tack on /d
to have the metadata displayed as well. For the most part, the order of
command-line parameters makes no difference.
PKGINFO supports NLS.
Examples:
PKGINFO /P /VER Shows program version
PKGINFO /P /E Lists executable programs
PKGINFO /P /R Reports missing files
See also:
fdimples
fdinst
fdnpkg
pkgmaker
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