yum: the package manager I love to hate

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 12:08:35 -0400,
  Jake Peavy <djstunks at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This does not appear to be useful information.  If I had it installed I
> wouldn't need to install it??

It wasn't clear from the phrasing in your original question why you needed
to find what package it was in.

yum whatprovides '/*xxd'

Should also work, but will be a bit less efficient. If you know the full
path it would be more efficient to supply it. But either way it should
finish reasonably quickly.