On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Paul B. Henson <henson at acm.org> wrote:
>
> Is there any easy way to determine on an installed system which package
> owns a particular file? Reviewing the documentation, I see there is a way
> to list out all files owned by a particular package, but I didn't see a way
> to query the other side.
>
> I suppose you could dump out the files owned for each package individually
> and try to find the file in question, but that seems inefficient.

Solaris:

pkgchk -l -p /usr/bin/ls

OpenSolaris:

pkg search /usr/bin/ls

(Hm. Why is the latter so slow?)

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