sometimes its slocate -u instead of updatedb On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't know if all distributions have this feature, but from the > command line, as root, run: "updatedb" > Then from the command line: "locate filename" > or even just part of the file's name. > You may want to pipe the output into a read only editor like more or less. > Wayne > > > On 02/12/2015 08:09 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 08:01:25PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> In the present instance I am trying to find the executable for > >> Ristretto image viewer. > > >From a command line: > > which ristretto > > > > which will print out the full path to the program. Provided it is in > your path. > > > > Alternatively you can use whatever your menu editor is to find the path > information by > > editing the entry for the application. > > > > > -- > Sent from my Linux Computer > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
