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.