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  From: Andreja Zivkovic <andy@zt.zivkotech.net.au>
  To  : Earnshaw, Mike" <earnshawm@wa.switch.aust.com>, "LinuxSA (E-mail)" <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>, "PLUG (E-mail) <earnshawm@wa.switch.aust.com>
  Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 16:41:11 +0930

RE: Which RPM?

other usual places for programs to exist is /usr/bin and /usr/sbin

Also, if there's a program that you can run, but don't know the path of,
type 'which <program>'. That'll tell you the path and filename of the
program you just selected. if you use the backquote (? the one under tidle
(~)) you can use it's output directly in rpm. eg

rpm -qf `which patch`

will tell you which package the executable patch came from.

Good luck
Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Earnshaw, Mike [mailto:earnshawm@wa.switch.aust.com]
> Sent: Friday, 9 June 2000 4:18 PM
> To: LinuxSA (E-mail); PLUG (E-mail)
> Subject: Which RPM?
>
>
> Lists,
>
> Trying to find which RPM contains a file. Normally I would use:
>
> rpm -qf <looking for> i.e. /bin/pwd
>
> I am trying to find the rpm that contains the "patch" command but I
> can't seem to get it to work as I don't know where patch would live. I
> have tried /bin/patch and /sbin/patch
>
> Any clues please? Thanks
>
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