Johnny Morano wrote:
> hey all
>
> i know this is prolly the wrong mailinglist, but since i'm using my laptop
> now, which has debian installed, i'd better post it here than to waste my
> time trying to figure out what mailinglist to send it to (i have a life you
> know...)
>
> so, the thing i'm trying to do is something like the `rpm -qf <filename>` in
> debian, so i can find out to what package this <filename> belongs. and no,
> it's not in the manpage...of dpkg i mean.
Sure it is. Here's the snip from man dpkg:
dpkg -S | --search filename-search-pattern ...
Search for a filename from installed packages. All
standard shell wildchars can be used in the pat
tern.
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