Ubuntu :: How To Find The Current (installation) Path Of A Tool
Jul 12, 2010
Assume I call a certain tool in terminal like
foobar -myoption
But a) there exists more than one installation of "foobar" on the system or b) I don't know where "foobar" is installed.
How can I find out WHICH foobar resp. WHICH path belongs to the currently active foobar tool?
I prefer a cmdline command with option similar to:
findactivepath -tool=foobar
....
Output: Used location=/usr/bin/foobar
I don't want to dig around with PATH investigations by searching every PATH component. Furthermore I don't want to get recommendations and expectations like "normally tools are installed in...". Think of unusual installed software.
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Apr 5, 2011
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Code:
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If I am root, things go well:
Code:
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Code:
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[url]
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I've tried:
Code:
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