[SOLVED] Learning command path of program from icon in dashboard

charlemagne-is-my-son · 03-13-2014, 10:00 AM

This might be answered already, but I don't know the terminology well enough to find out.

I am wondering how to find out the commandline path of a program which I can only seem to run from pressing the Windows key, typing in the program name, and clicking the icon that shows up.

I'd like to make it a startup program, but I don't know the path.

Thanks very much,
Matt

jdkaye · 03-13-2014, 10:29 AM

Run the following command as root or using sudo.

Code:

updatedb

Now run this command (no need to be root)

Code:

locate <program name>

and it will give you the path
jdk

schneidz · 03-13-2014, 11:16 AM

^ i think find would be preferable but syntactically slightly more complicated.

either way, i think which is more appropriate:

Code:

[schneidz@hyper perceptionists-black-dialogue]$ which firefox
/usr/bin/firefox

charlemagne-is-my-son · 03-16-2014, 02:18 AM

Ok. So I used the 'locate' command and it gave me such a huge output that I couldn't even attach the txt i siphoned it into.

The 'which' command assumes I know the shortcut. I didn't.

With a bit of intuition, I was able to wade through the output and found that the shortcut is XMind.

Thx!