Re: extract package name given a filename Message-ID: <87k596klul.fsf@newsguy.com>

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com> writes:


[...]

> something like this:
> $ dpkg -S /bin/bash
> bash: /bin/bash

Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:

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> Also:
> $ apt-file search /bin/bash
> bash: /bin/bash
> bash: /usr/bin/bashbug
> bash-minimal: /bin/bash-minimal
> bash-static: /bin/bash-static

These don't look like what I expected.  I was half remembering
something involving dpkg and grep,  Possibly dpkg has changed since a
few yrs and has that built in now with the -S switch offered by Jeff,

At any rate both of those posted look just as useful and simpler than
the cmd I was trying to remember... thanks