Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 16:45:44 -0700 (MST) From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu> To: charon@freethought.org Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: commands to execute programs Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903191637110.4752-100000@peloton.physics.montana.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990319152508.00980d60@mail>
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Hi,
On Fri, 19 Mar 1999 charon@freethought.org wrote:
> Is there any way to find out what the command for a program (installed
> from the ports) will be without guessing?
Sure - do a:
more pkg/PLIST
from whatever port directory you happen to be in. Look for things like
bin/some_darn_executable
It shouldn't be too hard to guess.
> However, I installed x-files and can't figure out the command ('which
> x-files' and 'which xfiles' fail. A 'which files' finds something,
> but I don't know what program it is - it doesn't identify itself when
> executed, and I also installed filerunner and can't find that - 'which
> filerunner' comes up empty.).
For example, doing it for these two ports we have:
x-files
peloton: {27} more /usr/ports/x11-fm/x-files/pkg/PLIST
bin/X-Files
(only bin)
filerunner
bin/fr
(only bin - and I wonder why the PLIST isn't sorted
alphabetically)
There you go.
> Also, why do some programs (like rc5des) have to be run with a full
> pathname and others can be run with just the program name? Is it that
> the latter type are in /usr/local/bin?
Your path is messed up? Try typing
cat $PATH
It'll give you your path as it's set now. If you don't see /usr/local/bin
in there you should add it, and /usr/X11R6/bin too, to your .cshrc or
.bashrc or whatever. For .cshrc you would want a line roughly like:
set path = (~/bin /bin /usr/{sbin,bin,games} /usr/local/bin
/usr/X11R6/bin)
(all one line - line broken so it mails right)
Note if you're running the rc5des client, and it's not in a directory
that's in your path you will have to give the explicit path. If I was
running it, I'd shove it in ~/bin (which is in my path) so I could just
type rc5des and I'd be off.
You should NOT however add a "." (which means look in current directory
for executables). This is a bad practice and can lead to much disaster.
Hope this helps!
Brett
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