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apt-file

apt-file is a utility to search for APT packages. 
apt-file [options] search pattern
apt-file [options] show   package
apt-file list is an alias for apt-file show, apt-file find for apt-file search.

apt-file show

apt-file show lists the contents of a package in a similar way like dpgk -L except that the package does not have to be installed of fetched.
apt-file search and apt-file find are equivalent.
apt-file search finds the package that contains a given filename.

Search with regular expression

The following command uses -x to enable regular expressions so that only the package for /usr/bin/tree, but not for /usr/bin/tree* will be found: 
$ apt-file search -x '^/usr/bin/tree$'
tree: /usr/bin/tree
Debian ~/notes/notes

See also

Compare with dpgk -L and apt search.

See also

APT

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