Friday, February 4, 2011

Find location of the program in Ubuntu

It’s rather trivial task for people who use Ubuntu for a long time but newbies usually have problems with adding program to startup if location of the program is unknown or it is required to specify full path to the program somewhere e.g. when opening attachment in mail client. There are two most popular ways to find this out:

1. which gedit
2. type gedit

Both will show full path to certain program (gnome editor in our example): /usr/bin/gedit:

commands: which and type to locate the programs in Ubuntu

Read more: http://www.linuxscrew.com/page/9/#ixzz1D4sLEdSt

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