DWWW-QUICKFIND(8)

👑 DWWW-QUICKFIND — the manual, section 8, Debian edition 💅

okay bestie so this is the page for dwww-quickfind, living in section 8 of the Debian man pages, and it's genuinely iconic for one specific thing: figuring out which package a program belongs to, fast. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

dwww-quickfind — find quickly which package a program belongs to.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dwww-quickfind --build [dbfile]
dwww-quickfind argument [dbfile]

like, two moods, two modes, both valid 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so dwww-quickfind is part of the dwww package, and that whole package is about giving you access to on-line documentation on a Debian system via WWW. very demure, very minding-its-own-business.

dwww-quickfind searches for a package or program named in argument, using the database file dbfile. and the output? the output is the names of packages installed in the system that contain the given program, or whose name is the same as the one you gave in argument. each package name gets printed on its own separate line. and here's the cute part — each package name can optionally be followed by a colon and then a space-separated list of names of related packages, i.e. the ones built from the same source package. siblings!! we love a family reunion 🎀

if you use it with --build, dwww-quickfind builds the programs database and stores it in dbfile, basing on data passed on standard input. and this is used internally by dwww-refresh-cache(8), so it's lowkey the backstage crew of the whole operation 🔥

⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

1. id is a part of coreutils package

$ /usr/sbin/dwww-quickfind id
coreutils

2. apt-get can be found in apt package, and there are a few other packages built from the same source:

$ /usr/sbin/dwww-quickfind apt-get
apt: apt-transport-https apt-utils libapt-pkg6.0

see the colon? see the little squad trailing behind it? that's the related-packages energy, iykyk 💅

🦋 FILES 🦋

• /var/cache/dwww/quickfind.dat — Default file used as the database file.

that's the one it reaches for when you don't hand it a dbfile of your own ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

dwww(7), dwww-find(8), dwww-refresh-cache(8).

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Lars Wirzenius.

See dwww(7) for copyrights and stuff.

okay so real talk — this page is dwww version 1.14, dated December 21th, 2020, and that's the whole vibe. go forth, find your packages, and slay 💖🧚✨