Does anyone now of a way to find where a file came from?

[jonathandilks]

Does anyone know of a way to find where a file came from? Like you upload a file, it searches the net for files that are exactly the same and it gives you a listing of sites which have that same file.

[burntfuse]

That seems like it would be REALLY, REALLY inefficient, but it might work if you just searched for the first 50 bytes or something. I think Google can search binary files, so you might want to look into doing an automated search.

[xxqq]

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/rpm.8.html

If you use RPM based distro, you can search it using "rpm -q --whatprovides" option or if you have a group of rpm files in a directory:

rpm -q --list -p *.rpm | grep -i "name_of_file"

[burntfuse]

I don't think that's what he (or she) was talking about, but I could be wrong.