Yum : searching for a package with binary name

Question

Is there a way to search a package using the binary name.

for example I want to find rpm package for command "ls" then it should be coreutils-6.9-10.4.i586 for example.

Answer 1

The 'rpm -qf' command should tell you which package owns any installed file.

> whereis ls
ls: /bin/ls /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1p/ls.1p.g

> rpm -qf /bin/ls
coreutils-5.97-23.el5_6.4

Answer 2

it seems scout bin ls does that

more on scout here

Answer 3

yum provides /bin/ls
repoquery -f /bin/ls

...will both dtrt. Also recent versions of "yum" will automatically do a number of file lookups if you do:

yum provides ls

Answer 4

The yum command "whatprovides" accepts wildcards. If you're searching for the package that provides as certain file or executable and do not know its full path, use "yum whatprovides */filename".

$ yum whatprovides */ls

coreutils-5.97-23.el5_4.2.x86_64 : The GNU core utilities: a set of tools
                                 : commonly used in shell scripts
Repo        : installed
Matched from:
Filename    : /bin/ls