Finding programs

Tom Horsley horsley1953 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 26 02:17:36 UTC 2011


On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 21:06:14 -0500
Mike Williams wrote:

> then its just a matter of
> grep some_program_or_other yum.*

I tend to do a grep -r in /usr/share/applications where
all the .desktop files defining menu items live, then
look for the Exec= line in the .desktop file that appears
to have the best match for my search.


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