dwww-quickfind - find quickly which package a program belongs to.
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Description
dwww-quickfind is part of the dwww package, which provides access to on-line documentation on a Debian
system via WWW.
dwww-quickfind searches for a package or program named in argument using the database file dbfile. The
output consists of names of packages installed in the system, which contain given program, or which name
is same as given in argument Each package name is printed in a separate line. Each package name can be
optionally followed by a colon and a space-separated list of names of related packages (i.e. built from
the same source package).
If used with --build, dwww-quickfind builds programs database and stores it in the dbfile, basing on data
passed on standard input. This is used internally by dwww-refresh-cache(8).
Examples
1. `id' is a part of `coreutils' package
$ /usr/sbin/dwww-quickfind id
coreutils
2. `apt-get' can be found in `apt' package, and there are a few other packages built from the same
source:
$ /usr/sbin/dwww-quickfind apt-get
apt: apt-transport-https apt-utils libapt-pkg6.0
Files
/var/cache/dwww/quickfind.dat
Default file used as the database file.
Name
dwww-quickfind - find quickly which package a program belongs to.
See Also
dwww(7), dwww-find(8), dwww-refresh-cache(8).
Synopsis
dwww-quickfind--build [dbfile]
dwww-quickfindargument [dbfile]
