NAME

       what-provides - determine what package provides a binary in your path

SYNOPSIS

       what-provides SOME_BINARY [SOME_OTHER_BINARY ...]

DESCRIPTION

       what-provides(1)  is a simple program that determines what package provides a specified binary that is in
       your path.

       It's a simple alias for dpkg(1) -S $(which(1) "$i").

EXAMPLE

        $ what-provides cat
        coreutils: /bin/cat

SEE ALSO

       dpkg(1), which(1)

AUTHOR

       This manpage and the utility was written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com> for Ubuntu systems (but
       may  be used by others).  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the
       terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-
       licenses/GPL, or on the web at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.