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Date:      Sun, 30 Sep 2018 13:25:48 -0400
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        "\@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   how to do pkg_info -W without pkg_info?
Message-ID:  <23473.1820.767689.910156@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <EEC68B00-B431-4170-8E51-073066A239A0@kreme.com>
References:  <EEC68B00-B431-4170-8E51-073066A239A0@kreme.com>

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@lbutlr writes:

>  I would like to find out what port installed a specific file, and
>  in searching I found the suggestion, from 2010, to use
>  
>  pkg_info -W <name of file>
>  
>  But on FreeBSD 11.1-p4-RELEASE with postmaster, there is no
>  pkg_info and `pkg info` doesn't have a -W flag nor, apparently, a
>  way to check for where a file came from.

	Try: "pkg which".


			Respectfully,


				Robert Huff




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