On Fri, 2024-11-08 at 21:53 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 11/8/24 8:46 PM, home user via users wrote: > > I thought that in the case of a file that IS owned by a package, rpm -qf > > was displaying the name of the owned file. So I was expecting a file > > name to appear once, not 2000+ times! > > > > It's now occurring to me that in the case of a file that is owned by a > > package, it's listing the name of the owning package, not the name of > > the owned file. Am I correct? > > That is correct. > > And now I see why you're confused. It doesn't show the filename, only > the package name, so you'll see an endless list of the package name, > with possibly only a few filenames mixed in. > The OP probably wants to see files that don't belong to an installed package, so an additional filter would be appropriate, e.g. ...|grep "not owned by any package" poc -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
