pkgfile
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pkgfile is a tool that tells you which package owns a specified file or which files a given package provides.
You can install it with pkgfile from the official repositories or with pkgfile-gitAUR from the Arch User Repository.
After installing the package, you should update the file list database as root:
# pkgfile --update
Example:
$ pkgfile makepkg # Search for a package that contains a file named 'makepkg'. core/pacman # Your searched file is in the 'pacman' package in the [core] repository.
Example 2:
$ pkgfile --list core/pacman # List all files provided by the 'pacman' package in the [core] repository.