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Searches the repositories to find which package contains a particular file, use the https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pkgfile:pkgfile command. This command isn't installed by default. It's in the ``pkgfile`` package.

To install:

sudo pacman -Sy pkgfile
sudo pkgfile --update #You'll want to run this if its been a while to (re)build indexes

To find which package contains a command:

pkgfile -v -b <file>

Command line arguments