which package a file belongs to

[Nils Kassube]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Nils Kassube wrote:
> > 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.

Sorry, I don't understand why it shouldn't work. Here both commands have 
the same output.


Nils