[Techtalk] Executing user-made commands on the command line

[Mary]

On Sun, May 11, 2003, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> (so 'rpm -qf /bin/ls' for example). That will tell you which source rpm
> to go hunting for (at somewhere like www.rpmfind.net). Not sure what the
> analogous procedure is on Debian systems, but I am sure somebody here
> can point the way.

dpkg -S <path to binary>

Those particular commands are in the fileutils package IIRC.

-Mary