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DWWW-QUICKFIND

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NAME

dwww-quickfind - find quickly which package a program belongs to.

SYNOPSIS

dwww-quickfind --build [ dbfile ]
dwww-quickfind argument [ dbfile ]

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.