December 24, 2009
I was trying to merge sort a list of files based on their last modified date when someone said to me “do a schwartzian”. Now, I had no idea what they were talking about so off to google I went.
It’s basically this (shamelessly ripped from the excellent Wikipedia article):
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December 14, 2009
With Debian there is a handy utility called apt-file which allows you to see which package owns a file even if it is not currently installed.
I used it earlier to find where “mysql_config” lived so I could upgrade DBD::mysql.
aptitude install apt-file && apt-file update then apt-file search filename
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