I'm going to have to read the man page for dpkg.  I never knew about the -S
option or that * was an acceptable input for dpkg either.


On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Tom Chapin <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >  >grep -i '^.eq' /usr/share/dict/american-english
> >  >Works fine.
> >
> > Yup, my maze of twisty soft links eventually gets there too.
> >
> > Forget what package I apt-got to get it...
>
> You can find out by providing a list of files to dpkg with the -S option:
>
> $ dpkg -S /usr/share/dict/*
> wamerican: /usr/share/dict/american-english
> dictionaries-common: /usr/share/dict/words
>
> Regards,
> - Robert
>
> >
>

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