searching for a particular file

[Vincent Danen]

With urpmi, you can use the tool urpmf to find what package contains a
certain file.  For instance:

urpmf "/usr/share/locale/en$"

will tell me what package contains this directory (or owns it), such as:

[root at build installer]# urpmf "/usr/share/locale/en$"
locales-en:/usr/share/locale/en

Is there an equivalent in apt?  I thought apt-cache would do it but:

[root at build installer]# apt-cache search "/usr/share/locale/en$"
[root at build installer]# 

Looks like it only does package names:

[root at build installer]# apt-cache search locales-en             
locales-en - Base files for localization (English)

Now, this is fine, except that when I'm asking a user for their locale
during installation, I used urpmf to make sure it was valid.  If it was
strictly "en" or "ru", etc. I could use the above and just change it to
something like "apt-cache search locales-${locale}" but that doesn't
help for things like "en_US" (apt-cache will return nothing, but it is
valid), and urpmf will find it:

[root at build installer]# urpmf "/usr/share/locale/en_US$"
locales-en:/usr/share/locale/en_US

Is there something like that for apt?  I looked at the other apt-cache
options, but none of them seemed to fit.

Thanks.

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