On Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 6:12:23 AM UTC+1, jak wrote: > Il 12/10/2022 06:00, Paulo da Silva ha scritto: > > Hi! > > > > The simple question: How do I find the full path of a shell command > > (linux), i.e. how do I obtain the corresponding of, for example, > > "type rm" in command line? > > > > The reason: > > I have python program that launches a detached rm. It works pretty well > > until it is invoked by cron! I suspect that for cron we need to specify > > the full path. > > Of course I can hardcode /usr/bin/rm. But, is rm always in /usr/bin? > > What about other commands? > > > > Thanks for any comments/responses. > > Paulo > > > I'm afraid you will have to look for the command in every path listed in > the PATH environment variable.
erm, or try 'which rm' ? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
