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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 09:36:15 +1100
From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
To: Kenneth Chiu <chiuk@cs.indiana.edu>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: what's this file?
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On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 12:09:05PM -0500, Kenneth Chiu wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Sue Blake wrote:
> > What's the easiest way to tell what package a file on my system came from?
>
> One way is to just search all the packages contents files for the
> file in question.  Might be an easier way, though.
> 
> 	find /var/db/pkg -name '+CONTENTS' | xargs grep <name>

That does it pretty well, thanks :-)

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Regards,
        -*Sue*-


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