Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Cygwin package info

The Cygwin tool for querying the package database is cygcheck. It's like a read-only version of dpkg or rpm. For example:
$ which ssh
/usr/bin/ssh
$ cygcheck -f `which ssh`
openssh-5.9p1-1
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