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On Thursday 02 January 2003 08:34, Michael Walters wrote:
> Hello Dave,
>
> When I originally typed "strings" it was in all lower case. I looked for
> "strings" in the 26 1/4 pages of program files in usr/bin and did not
> find it there, although I did find another program called less, which I
> did not have in /bin.
>
> Now that I know I have 26 1/4 pages of programs in /usr/bin in addition
> to the 2 pages of instructions in /bin , could you please tell me how to
> access the programs in /usr/bin?
echo $PATH
every program that is an a directory that is in that path env var will be
available to you via the command line, plus any built-ins your shell
provides.
you can add to your path like you would any env var, preferably in your
.profile or your shell-specific profile file with something like:
PATH=/another/path:$PATH
export PATH
(bash allows export and the assignment on the same line; not all shells do)
also, if you are looking for an executable, other handy commands are: locate
(assuming you have slocate installed and have run updatedb recently) and
which.
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Aaron J. Seigo
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"
- Albert Einstein
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