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Re: X and other snags... :P

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From: Master Mischief
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 1995 00:00
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Michael McNeil (kludge@zot.com) wrote:
: JiunWoei Tseng (jryan@glue.umd.edu) wrote:

[snip]
: : 5. If you want to find out what applications you have in your system how do
: : you go about doing that?  (Currently I just go into each directory and sniff
: : them out; once I find it I write their locations down.)

:    That's what I've always done. 
You can always use : find . -name "*fname part*" -ls
from root.  This is actually faster than I thought it would be.

Also there is whereis which looks oonly in your path for stuff...

[snip]

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From: warhurbp@access5.digex.net (Master Mischief)
Subject: Re: X and other snags... :P
Date: 1995/09/04
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