Re: iso: info on determining in what packages a command might be found?

> One of the shell commands that make up a part of this application
> invokes the command 'compress' on solaris.  I know there are
> comperable commands like gzip or bzip2 - but since the
> application is going to continue to run on both platforms, I need
> to invoke compress on linux.
> 
> To do that, I need to _find_ compress.

which compress
	or
type comp ress
	or
locate compress

> What resources are available to 'look up' to see what red hat
> package contains compress - or any other command, for that
> matter?

rpm -q --whatprovides $(which compress)

	old style for same command below

rpm -q --whatprovides `which compress`

Normally, you'd first get the full path with "which compress"; 
which would yield /usr/bin/compress.  Then you would put that into 
the RPM command like this: 
"rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/compress".
The above is a one-liner technique ready for using in shell 
scripts, but you would need to change "compress" to the $1 
parameter.

May the source be with you.  ;)

-- 
 Thomas Corriher