tcsh alias - find FreeBSD port

Question

I am trying to create an alias for tcsh. I would like to find a program in ports (FreeBSD ports).

So far I made an alias, which works, but finds only ports which end in *port_name. I would like it to search for *port_name*. Can you tell why my example does not work?

alias najdi 'echo /usr/ports/*/*\!:1* | sed -e "y/ /\n/"'

.

najdi port_name
finds: *port_name
expected: *port_name*

SOLUTION: I switched to this: (it is also case in-sensitive)

alias portfind 'cd /usr/ports && make quicksearch name=\!:1 | grep Path'

Answer 1

In tcsh the expansion !:1* is equivalent to !:1-$

To achieve what you want you need to do this:

alias najdi 'echo /usr/ports/*/*\!:1-1* | sed -e "y/ /\n/"'

Personally I prefer to use find instead of shell expansion:

alias najdi 'find /usr/ports -type d -maxdepth 2 -name \*\!:1-1\* -print'