On 2018-12-15, Mihai Popescu <mih...@gmail.com> wrote: > I want to modify the char used for pkg_add (and other pkg_ suite) > progress bar from "*" to "|" but i am unable to figure out where is > the actual code for this. I managed to found /usr/sbin/pkg_add but > there are another links in there, and perl for me is a no idea > language.
Well, you need to understand that the code for the pkg tools is mostly found in numerous Perl modules--the files in the OpenBSD directory under src/usr.sbin/pkg_add. >From there it's a reasonable guess that this asterisk probably shows up as some sort of string or character constant, i.e., something like '*' or "*", so with the proper shell quoting you run a recursive grep for this... Bingo, there it is. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
