[Techtalk] which rpm package does a file belong to

[Zohar, Itai]

Hi.

Is there a quick & easy way to find out which rpm package a file belongs to?
I always resort to writing a script that goes through all the installed
packages, which is very slow.
I know the information is in /var/lib/rpm, but the files are in db format.
is there a quick way to retrieve it?

thanks,

Itai.



In case anybody is interested in the slow method:
for pack in `rpm -qa`; do
  if rpm -ql $pack | grep <file>; then
    echo $pack
  fi
done
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