Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 01:54:41PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:49:57AM -0400, Jason Rennie wrote:
> >> dpkg -S | --search filename-search-pattern ...
> >> Search for a filename from installed packages.
>>
>> How is this unclear, exactly?
> It doesn't say, "Search for a filename THAT IS CONTAINED WITHIN an
> installed package." Why wouldn't the above include
> programmatically-generated configuration files? They're "from" the
> package.
> --
> Carl Fink carl@fink.to
> Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading
> http://www.jabootu.com
Why just use our trusty old friend find?
also you have locate, whereis, and a bunch of others, I must say find can do
about anything. Also whereis is a nice catch all for common files and
programs. It seems that you need to use the right tool for the job, and
frankly I don't see dpkg -S as a good solution. It works for packages that
dpkg knows about. But then that could be said of the same for rpm -qf.
Rthoreau
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