Aye. So, let us say you want to know what package a file comes from.
On FreeBSD:
0-17:16 djh@web3 ~> find /var/db/pkg -name +CONTENTS | xargs grep -l pdftex
/var/db/pkg/teTeX-1.0.7_1/+CONTENTS
Ugly, eh? Which, I think the portinstall stuff has a pkgwhich command.
Update: On FreeBSD, one may use:
pkg_info -W `which pdftex`
Linux?
[root@novadb0 pdftex-1.30.5]# rpm -qf /usr/bin/pdftex
tetex-2.0.2-22.EL4.4
Schweet!
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The Ji Village News
Schweet indeed! Thanks for sharing. I can see this can be very handy.
I’ve always have the impression of FreeBSD being the same as Linux, with some cosmetic differences here and there. It looks like I need to adjust that thinking a bit;)
dbt
You forgot | xargs -n 1 dirname
mangala
how about pkg_info -W filename ?
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