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A command's package details

Terminal - A command's package details
dpkg -S `which nm` | cut -d':' -f1 | (read PACKAGE; echo "[${PACKAGE}]"; dpkg -s "${PACKAGE}"; dpkg -L "${PACKAGE}") | less
2009-07-14 20:21:48
User: mohan43u
Functions: cut echo read
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A command's package details

In Debian based distros, this command will list 'binutils' package details which contains 'nm' command. You can replace 'nm' to any other command.

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function summpkg { dpkg -s $(dpkg -S $1 | egrep -w $(which $1)$ | awk -F: '{print $1}') ; }
2011-07-05 23:06:37
User: b_t
Functions: awk egrep which
Tags: which dpkg
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A command's package details

This version builds on my command 8776 (Find the package a command belongs to on debian-based distros). So if you use that command to find package name then you could alternatively use following for

package summary:

function summpkg { dpkg -s $(whichpkg $1 | awk -F: '{print $1}'); }
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summpkg() { rpm -qfi "$@"; }
2011-07-05 23:39:24
User: flatcap
Functions: rpm
Tags: rpm
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A file's rpm-package details

Find information about the rpm package which owns a certain file.

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dlocate claims to be faster for some of these operations, although it returns more matches in the case of 'dlocate -S /usr/bin/nm'. Nice command!

Comment by bwoodacre 200 weeks and 5 days ago

You can simplify this slightly to eliminate "read":

dpkg -S `which nm` | cut -d':' -f1 | (read PACKAGE; echo "[${PACKAGE}]"; dpkg -s "${PACKAGE}"; dpkg -L "${PACKAGE}") | less

Personally I'd leave out the dpkg -L call and less, and keep it short:

cmd(){ PACKAGE=$(dpkg -S $(which $1) | cut -d':' -f1); echo "[${PACKAGE}]"; dpkg -s "${PACKAGE}" ;}
Comment by johnraff 179 weeks and 6 days ago

er... sorry I mispasted the first line, it should have been:

PACKAGE=$(dpkg -S $(which nm) | cut -d':' -f1 ); echo "[${PACKAGE}]"; dpkg -s "${PACKAGE}"; dpkg -L "${PACKAGE}") | less
Comment by johnraff 179 weeks and 6 days ago

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