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Finding which package owns a file in Linux

LinuxPackage Managementaptintermediate

What this snippet does

dpkg -S maps a path back to the package that installed it.

Expected output

iproute2: /usr/bin/ss
bind9-dnsutils: /usr/bin/dig

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