On Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 12:07:36 PM UTC+1, jak wrote: > Il 12/10/2022 09:40, jkn ha scritto: > > 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' ? > You might but if you don't know where the 'rm' command is, you will have > the same difficulty in using 'which' Command. Do not you think?
I don't need to know where the rm command is in order to use the which command. I *was* (knowingly and deliberately) assuming that you have a semi-reasonably working system, and that your question meant "given command X, how do I find where the executable X is on my system?". Sounds like you want to make less assumptions than that. Fine. but probably best to be clear about your assumptions up front. J^n -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
