Centos/RHEL – find package for a file

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Centos/RHEL Linux yum command line tool can be used to find which package a file belongs to.

Fine packages based filename

To find package which contains /usr/bin/systemctl
$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/systemctl
systemd-208-20.el7.x86_64

Find packages using filename wildcard match

$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/systemct*
systemd-208-20.el7.x86_64
$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/*ystemctl
systemd-208-20.el7.x86_64

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