Hi Mark, > On 12. Nov, 2020, at 16:37, Paul Förster <paul.foerster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > how about searching for pg_ctl only inside a bin directory: > > $ find / -type f -name "pg_ctl" -exec grep "/bin/" {} \; 2>/dev/null > Binary file /data/postgres/12.4/bin/pg_ctl matches > Binary file /data/postgres/13.0/bin/pg_ctl matches > > That should also solve your source tree and root mail problems. btw., you can also do it without calling grep: $ find / -type f -executable -regex "*/bin/pg_ctl" 2>/dev/null At least on openSUSE. But I guess, it should be pretty much the same on CentOS. Cheers, Paul