Hi all folks, Kindly advise What other commands shall be used to find the directory and subdirectories of an application other than "locate" command Thanks in advance. satimis

Try the find command. find application starting in current directory: find -name application find application starting in root directory: find / -name application find application starting in current directory but ignore other filesystems: find -mount -name application -mount option is useful if you also have windows partitions mounted and you want to confine your search to the linux partitions. See man find for other options.

Other options that might help find the executable are -perm +001 to check for world execute permission and -type f to check if it's a file. If you can run the program but want to know where it is, you can use "which" to give you the exact path. "whereis" searches a predetermined list of common locations for executables, so if you don't want all the results from locate (man pages, libraries, etc.), and the program isn't in your path, whereis could help.

Hi all, Thanks for your response. What is the difference between type and whereis B.Regards Satimis

type is an alias for "whence -v". whence looks through you aliases, function definitions and PATH directories to tell you what the shell would do with the specified command. whereis just checks the standard bin directories e.g. /etc/bin. e.g: $ type type type is an alias for 'whence -v' $ whereis type [returns nothing]

Hi William, Thanks for your response. Something is different in my system Both as 'root' and 'user' $ type type type is a shell builtin $ whereis type type: /usr/share/man/man1/type.1.gz

That's OK, it just means that you have a man page for type installed on your system whereas WilliamRobertson doesn't. My outputs are exactly the same as yours (except mine is type.1.bz2), they probably just vary slightly for different distros.