--- Iain Buchanan <iain@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 13:11, Stephen Liu wrote: > > What command line will be used to find the execute > file of a software, > > e.g. > > > > /usr/bin/evolution > > I think this is what you're trying to do: Try > 'which'. For example: > $ which evolution > /usr/bin/evolution > > $ ls -al `which evolution` > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 579002 Nov 13 10:17 > /usr/bin/evolution > An alternative would be 'type evolution'. I'm not sure which would be better though. 'type' is a bash built-in. It seems to have the advantage that one can use 'type -t evolution' to find out whether evolution is an alias or a file. Oisin Feeley __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
