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Date:      Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:36:54 -0800
From:      "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to find which port has a given executable
Message-ID:  <200503230936.54842.ringworm01@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050323173313.GA94954@rajarajan.homeunix.net>
References:  <20050323173313.GA94954@rajarajan.homeunix.net>

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On Wednesday 23 March 2005 09:33 am, Rajarajan Rajamani wrote:
> Hi,
>  I had asked this in a slightly different post but there was no reply
> so I am posting again.
>
> Is it possible to find out which port has a particular
> executable/script file ? It took me some time to find
> out if the script epstopdf was in latex or tex or tetex!
>
> Any easy way to do this ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Rajarajan

Here is an example:

pkg_info -W /usr/X11R6/bin/nedit
/usr/X11R6/bin/nedit was installed by package nedit-5.5

-Mike



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