Re: How did all these .wav files get on my system?

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Author: Ted Gould
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: How did all these .wav files get on my system?
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 14:17 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote:
> Depending on your distro, you might use the appropriate package manager
> utility to see which package (if any) they belong to. For example, on
> RHEL/rpm based systems, you would:
> # rpm -qf /home/joe/.ooo3/user/gallery/Pinson.wav
> to see which package that file might belong to.
>
> Anyone know off hand what the debian/ubuntu command would be?


In general a Debian package wouldn't put something in your home
directory, so it's unlikely to be from there. But, for completeness the
command that can find which package a file is in is:

dpkg -S

Which is for search, so you can add some wildcards and such to.

        --Ted


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