[PLUG] How to find the executables

Nat Taylor bioborg at gmail.com
Fri Feb 13 08:13:09 UTC 2015


sometimes its slocate -u   instead of updatedb

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. <wevl at pacifier.com>
wrote:

> I don't know if all distributions have this feature, but from the
> command line, as root, run: "updatedb"
> Then from the command line: "locate filename"
> or even just part of the file's name.
> You may want to pipe the output into a read only editor like more or less.
> Wayne
>
>
> On 02/12/2015 08:09 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 08:01:25PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> >> In the present instance I am trying to find the executable for
> >> Ristretto image viewer.
> > >From a command line:
> >      which ristretto
> >
> > which will print out the full path to the program.  Provided it is in
> your path.
> >
> > Alternatively you can use whatever your menu editor is to find the path
> information by
> > editing the entry for the application.
> >
>
>
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