On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 12:48 -0500, saronn wrote: > Wow, I spent an hour or two finding LSPCI, and all along I had it. ;) > Hint: there are a variety of ways of seeing if you have a program installed on Linux. All are command line utilities (listed in the order I usually try them): man progname # see if it has a manpage. Most do. apropos progname # look for synonyms [*] which progname # see if its in $PATH locate progname # see if the filename is present info progname # GNU programs tend to have info # entries rather than manpages [*] this is powerful: "apropos ls" finds all the following on my system: ls [] (1) - list directory contents ls [] (1p) - list directory contents lsattr [] (1) - list file attributes on a Linux second extended file lsdiff [] (1) - show which files are modified by a patch lshal [] (1) - list HAL devices lshw [] (1) - list hardware lsmod [] (8) - program to show the status of modules in the Linux K lsof [] (8) - list open files lspci [] (8) - list all PCI devices lstat [] (2) - get file status lstat [] (3p) - get symbolic link status lsusb [] (8) - list USB devices together with a collection of other names that contain 'ls', so its better to run it as: apropos progname | less so you can scroll through the list. Martin
