Re: dig

[Jhair Tocancipa Triana <jhair.tocancipa@gmail.com>]

Raquel  writes:

> Does anyone know in what package can I find "dig"?  I tried
> "apt-cache search dig" and couldn't find anything it the list it
> gave me.

"apt-cache search" looks for package names not for package
contents. You should try apt-file[1] instead:

$ apt-file --fixed-string search /usr/bin/dig
dnsutils: usr/bin/dig

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[1] It seems apt-file is a CPU hog though:
  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
12522 jtocanci  18   0 25500 6356 2616 S 68.6  0.6   0:05.03 apt-file

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-- Jhair