On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 01:00:39PM -0500, Jim Perrin wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > > I accidentally typed ss instead of ls and was surprised when it did > > something... ?I can use rpm's --whatprovides to see where it came from, > > but how are you supposed to find out want a program does when it doesn't > > have a man page? > > On a slightly more helpful note, once you know the name of the rpm > which provided the package, you can use 'rpm -qd packagename' to see Or, using the "f" option % rpm -qdf /usr/sbin/ss Which could be combined with a simple grep: % grep -lw ss $(rpm -qdf /usr/sbin/ss) /usr/share/doc/iproute-2.6.18/RELNOTES /usr/share/doc/iproute-2.6.18/ss.ps They're the 2 files I'd look at! -- rgds Stephen