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[Richard <ricreig@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri September 12 2008 5:56:01 am Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Thursday 2008-09-11 at 22:13 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
>
> > # rpm -qa mc
> > mc-4.6.2.pre1-71.1
>
> Trick:
>
> cer@nimrodel:~> wrpm mc
> mc-4.6.2.pre1-71.1
>
> cer@nimrodel:~> cat /usr/local/bin/wrpm
> #!/bin/sh
>
> if [ "a$1" = "a" ]
> then
>      echo "Which rpm contains that program? Usage: \"wrpm program\"."
> else
>      rpm -q -f `which $1`
>
>
>
> It runs faster that rpm -qa ;-)
>
> --
> Cheers,
>         Carlos E. R.

Thank you for one of the more useful 'Tricks' I've seen in a while.   

Richard

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