which package a file belongs to

[Matthew Flaschen]

Nils Kassube wrote:
> frmas wrote:
>> I've tried to optimize that, but I failed. I don't know how to get rid
>> of those little ":" at the end of the name. This is my command line :
>>  dpkg -S /usr/bin/nedit | dpkg -l `awk '{print $1}'`
>> but awk returns "nedit:" ;-(
>> I do not know how to remove those ":".... Francois
> 
> How about this?
> 
> dpkg -S /usr/bin/nedit|dpkg -l $(cut -f1 -d':')

Doesn't work.  But:

  dpkg -l `dpkg -S /usr/bin/nedit|cut -f1 -d':'`

would.

Matt Flaschen