[PLUG] How to find the executables

Michael Rasmussen michael at jamhome.us
Fri Feb 13 16:01:26 UTC 2015


On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:33:35PM -0800, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. 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.

Going that route it's advisable to try 'locate FIlENAME | grep bin' first or you 
may get screens of other  information.

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