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Date:      Mon, 23 Nov 1998 22:27:20 -0800
From:      bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah)
To:        Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: what's this file? 
Message-ID:  <199811240627.WAA26328@stennis.ca.sandia.gov>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Nov 1998 17:12:54 %2B1100." <19981124171254.23210@welearn.com.au> 

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If memory serves me right, Sue Blake wrote:
> What's the easiest way to tell what package a file on my system came from?

I'm sure there's probably a more elegant way to do this, but what about 
looking through the +CONTENTS files in /var/db/pkg/*?  Something like this:

hornet:bmah% cd /var/db/pkg
hornet:pkg% grep tclsh */+CONTENTS
tcl-7.6/+CONTENTS:bin/tclsh7.6
tcl-7.6/+CONTENTS:man/man1/tclsh.1.gz
tcl-8.0.2/+CONTENTS:bin/tclsh8.0
tcl-8.0.2/+CONTENTS:man/man1/tclsh.1.gz

(It looks to be kind of hard to find where a file *in a particular directory* 
came from, due to the syntax of the +CONTENTS files.)

Bruce.



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