pacman

pacman -F, file operations

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Download file database

pacman -Fy

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Find which package owns a file, for example /usr/bin/rg

$ pacman -F /usr/bin/rg

usr/bin/rg is owned by extra/ripgrep 14.1.1-1

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Search with regex. For example search which packages provides a man page for docker:

$ pacman -Fx '\bdocker\.1\.gz$'

extra/docker 1:28.0.1-1
    usr/share/man/man1/docker.1.gz
extra/podman-docker 5.4.1-1 [installed]
    usr/share/man/man1/docker.1.gz

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List the files owned by the a package, for example unrar

$ pacman -Fl unrar

unrar usr/bin/unrar
unrar usr/share/licenses/unrar/LICENSE

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