Re: Generic file finder question ..what tool or database
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 10:06:03AM +0100, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
> > If I have the name of a file like xpm.h and want to know what package
> > contains it. And I find that `apt-cache search xpm.h' doesn't know
> > about it.
> >
> > And dpkg -S xpm.h doesn't either
>
> I'm not sure about this, but don't you have to give the complete path, so
>
> dpkg -S /path/to/xpm/h
No, 'dpkg -S' does substring searches (technically, you give it an
unanchored wildcard match).
> > But where is a database that contains that kind of information for all
> > packages in a distribution? That is, a list of all the file names in
> > all the packages of a distribution.
>
> If you really want lists of files, I think there in
>
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list
That's exactly as useful as 'dpkg -S'.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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