Very Basic Question

[Dylan Semler]

On 11/29/06, Les <hlhowell at pacbell.net> wrote:
>
> The path that you are exercising to the binary of most commands is
> revealed by the command "which".
> For example, "which evolution" returns "/usr/bin/evolution".
>

I find the whereis command helpful too, as it gives the locations of the
package's man pages, config files, binaries, libraries, etc.:

user at host:~$ whereis firefox
firefox: /usr/bin/firefox /etc/firefox /usr/lib/firefox /usr/bin/X11/firefox
/usr/share/firefox /usr/share/man/man1/firefox.1.gz


-- 
Dylan

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