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find out the command is from which packages using rpm

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August 5th, 2006 mysurface Posted in Admin, backquote, rpm | Hits: 2694 |

rpm is a common package manager for red hat, fedora, centos distro, to find out the command is from which package, you can using rpm -qf, let say you wanna find out “host” is from which package.

rpm -qf `which host`

#output:

bind-utils-9.3.2-20.FC5

Take care of the symbol (`) , it is not single quote. For normal keyboard, it is at on top of the tab button. It use to pass a result from one command to another as parameter.
The command line is equivalent to

rpm -qf /usr/bin/host

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2 Responses to “find out the command is from which packages using rpm”

  1. durian Says:
    August 7th, 2006 at 5:05 pm

    ` is called back quote.

  2. toydi Says:
    September 11th, 2006 at 10:22 pm

    great! what’s a useful backquote!

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