[PLUG] Zip Archiver not in PATH

Jon Jacob jon at manymoons.net
Thu Jul 11 03:08:56 UTC 2002


After finding where it is, you can set your path as you already stated. 
Or you could move it (look up mv, if you don't already know that one) or
you can create a symbolic link by using the ln -s command.  

On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 19:26, Anthony Schlemmer wrote:
> "locate" is fine as long as the file database is kept up to date. 
> "which" on the other hand goes though the PATH environment variable and 
> attempts to find an executable by the specified name.
> 
> Tony
> 
> On Wednesday 10 July 2002 18:57 pm, Rich Shepard wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Keith wrote:
> > > whereis zip
> > > whereis gzip
> > > whereis compress
> > > whereis bzip2
> >
> >    The 'locate' command is a variant that works just as well.
> >
> > Rich
> >
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