what-provides - determine what package provides a binary in your path

       This manpage and the utility was written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com> for Ubuntu systems (but
       may be used by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under  the
       terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation.

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what-utils                                         11 Jan 2011                                  what-provides(1)

what-provides(1)  is a simple program that determines what package provides a specified binary that is in
       your path.

       It's a simple alias for dpkg(1) -S $(which(1) "$i").

        $ what-provides cat
        coreutils: /bin/cat

       what-provides - determine what package provides a binary in your path

dpkg(1), which(1)

what-provides SOME_BINARY [SOME_OTHER_BINARY ...]