Re: dpkg -S and symlinks
On Sunday 14 July 2002 10:28 pm, Derek Gladding wrote:
[snip]
> "dpkg -S words" works fine, as does "find -name words".
>
> The file name is "words", the full path name is
> "/usr/share/dict/words".
>
> > Oh, I see it is a symlink. Odd, the dpkg man page doesn't mention
> > -S doesn't know about symlinks.
>
> It looks like it doesn't know about full paths. Symlinks don't seem
> to be a problem.
>
> > Must be a bug, no?
>
> Don't think so, just yet another thing to learn. (There's always
> another thing to learn).
Hmm, looking again, it looks like I made a mistake. Lots of stuff comes
up for dpkg -S words, but not that specific file. My apologies, and I
have just learnt something :)
[snip]
- Derek
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