What is 'Red Hat nash' in the boot sequence ??? (rpm comment)

[Patrick Boutilier]

Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:

> 
>      $ locate nash
>      /usr/share/man/man8/nash.8.gz
>      /sbin/nash
>      $ rpm -q --whatprovides /sbin/nash
>      mkinitrd-3.5.22-1
> 

I have noticed that a lot of people use rpm -q --whatprovides <file> to 
figure out RPM a file belongs to. But isn't rpm -qf <file> more correct? 
(and quicker to type as well :-) )


rpm --help

-f, --file      query/verify package(s) owning file


--whatprovides  query/verify the package(s) which provide a dependency