On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Fred Frigerio wrote:

> It worked thanks a lot. Do you guys know where I can find more info about
> rpm, besides the man pages?

RPM howto (should be in /usr/doc/HOWTO), and of course www.rpm.org

> I figure there has to be a way to search through
> a series of *.rpm and find the one that has the file one is looking for. Just
> that I coulden't figure it out from the man rpm.

I don't know if there's an easier/better way to do it, but this works:

for i in *rpm; do
  if rpm -qpl $i |grep WHAT_YOU_ARE_LOOKING_FOR &>/dev/null; then
    echo $i
    exit 0
  fi
done
echo Not found :/

LLaP
bero

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