Questions tagged [paths]
Questions related to path in networking, file system and OS.
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Setting PATH variable in /etc/environment vs .profile
Where is the preferred place to set the PATH envvar?
~/.profile or /etc/environment?
What is the case when PATH is set in both places?
Is the end result a concatenation of both values set in those ...
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How to find python installation directory on Ubuntu
I have just migrated from Windows environment. I have installed Python 3.2 in a separate directory. How can I get the python installation path in Ubuntu shell?
Is there any way I can let the shell ...
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How to display $PATH as one directory per line?
I cannot figure out how to list the various paths in $PATH separately so that they look like this:
/bin
/usr/bin
/usr/local/bin
How can this be done?
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How can you quickly get the complete path to a file for use in terminal?
How can you quickly get the complete path to a file for use in terminal?
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How to write the path of a folder with space in its name? [duplicate]
I can't figure out how to write the path of a folder that includes spaces in its name (in Terminal).
I tried:
cd /path/path/path/"A Folder"/file
cd /path/path/path/'A Folder/file
cd /path/path/...
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How to add /home/username/bin to $PATH? [duplicate]
Show how you can add /home/<yourusername>/bin to the $PATH variable. Use $HOME (or ~) to
represent your home directory.
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Where is WSL located on my computer?
I am new to Windows and have installed WSL2 based on the instructions provided here.
It works fine, but I cannot locate where it has been installed on my computer. The output for pwd is home/nkp68.
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How do I add an executable to my search path?
For reference, I know very little about Linux, and am using it to run a program written by someone else. The instructions say Add the executable 'ttt' to the search path. In most installations this ...
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Is the tilde, `~` considered to be a relative path?
I'm trying to extract the different part of the Nvidia cuda library installer. I'm using the following command:
mkdir ~/Downloads/nvidia_installers
./cuda_6.5.14_linux_64.run -extract=~/Downloads/...
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Variable path issue : conda command not found
After installing Anaconda correctly. I wanted after finishing the installation to do the following. I forget to do it while installing anaconda:
export PATH="/root/anaconda3/bin"
conda --version
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What is a full path name?
I would like to understand what full path name really means. I have a file in my home directory called my_script. I assumed the full path name is ./my_script, meaning that it is in the root folder, ...
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How to put executable to /usr/local/bin? [duplicate]
I realise this is basic but I have read two pages of google answers and am still unclear 'How to put executable in /usr/local/bin?'
I have downloaded a package and made the executable called profit. ...
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When writing a bash script, how do I get the absolute path of the location of the current file?
Suppose I have a bash file called myBash.bash. It resides in:
/myDirect/myFolder/myBash.bash
Now I want to use the string /myDirect/myFolder (the location of myBash.bash) inside the script. Is ...
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Typing location path instead of clicking directory buttons in the file picker dialog?
Is there a way to change file picker dialog path input? I would like to type the path myself instead of clicking buttons to specify the destination path. In Nautilus I can hit Ctrl+L, to show the path ...
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How do I find the Firefox binary path?
I have Firefox in the start menu, but there are no "properties" like in Windows.
How do I find out were Firefox is installed and how do I check the path of link of a menu item?
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Where is my boost lib file?
I am using boost. I installed it using sudo apt-get install. Now I am unable to find my boost lib file on my filesystem.
I want to include the path of the lib in my Qt project. grepping is taking too ...
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Why isn't tilde recognised as home folder in this case?
This doesn't work:
$ ls "~/.wine/drive_c/tools/Family Tree v2.0"
ls: cannot access '~/.wine/drive_c/tools/Family Tree v2.0': No such file or directory
But this does:
$ ls "/home/daniel/.wine/...
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How can I add ~/.local/bin to my PATH?
I'm just trying to follow this tutorial and set up my environment. My system is WSL Ubuntu 18.04. Here is already an answer on my question, but I as an absolute novice in Linux/UNIX don't know which ...
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How to show the full path of a file or directory in the terminal?
I need to know how the directory name in order to type it out in the terminal. How do I access the names of directories?
Windows Explorer used to have a title bar with the full path. Can someone ...
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How to find full path of device I've connected?
I have USB device, which is actually identified as serial device by Ubuntu 10.04. How can I find its full path?
ls -la /dev/
shows a lot of devices. How to choose correct one?
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Show full path to file in terminal [duplicate]
I have a file. I'd like to echo out the full path to it in the terminal.
Which command would?
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Where are gnome extensions preferences stored?
Am creating a dotfiles git repo for my gnome setup and would like the precise settings for the Gnome extensions to be transferrable across installations
I found that the extensions themselves are ...
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Windows filepath converted to Linux filepath
I have a Windows path in a bash variable as a string:
file='C:\Users\abcd\Downloads\testingFile.log'
I am trying to convert this path into a Linux path starting with /c/Users....
My attempt
The ...
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How to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH permanently?
I am using Ubuntu 16. I want to use cfmid for my project. When I set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in terminal, I can get output of the cfmid library:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/home/lclab/installed/...
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Is ./ (dot slash) a command?
Core of the question:
The question arose while I could not install the software, so I am genuinely asking about ./ because I didn't know about it and the output "command not found" was confusing me ...
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Launch shell scripts from anywhere [duplicate]
Is it possible to run my scripts located in ~/scripts from anywhere?
Say i want to run ./scriptname regardless of my current working directory.
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How do I install VLC extensions?
VLC player allows installing extensions, plugins, skins. They have to be copied into a folder: for example, its .lua extensions should be in a folder with the same name. Where is that?
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Icon path in .desktop file
On my desktop I have a .desktop file. If I type:
Icon=/home/ianbell/Pictures/myLogo.png
the icon of the .desktop file changes (the expected result).
But, if I type:
Icon=~/Pictures/myLogo.png
it ...
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Alt+F2 (Run Application) doesn't work for custom commands
In order to speed up Android development, I've edited my ~/.bashrc to add some paths to PATH:
export PATH=${PATH}:/opt/android-sdk/tools:/opt/android-sdk/platform-tools
This works just fine from the ...
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How to know the path of a particular software?
Context:
I'm trying to make an application automatically start when I login. For this I need to select the path for the application.
Here are the paths I already looked into:
/sbin
/usr/sbin
/usr/...
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Is there a GUI to edit the PATH variable?
There's a GUI in Windows to edit the path variable. I was wondering if there's something equivalent in Ubuntu to do the same.
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How do I find where an application is installed?
I installed wireshark recently. I have no idea in which directory it was installed, but it's not in /opt.
How do I find where it's installed?
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How to set anaconda as a default python?
I have just installed the Anaconda (for ipython notebook -- wanted to run some pandas programme). It is installed successfully but the problem here is whenever I type which python, it is always using ...
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Can VeraCrypt use persistent mount points on Linux?
Can VeraCrypt use persistent mount points on Linux?
Windows + VeraCrypt + encrypted volume absolute paths
On Windows I can mount veracrypt encrypted partitions/disks via batch script which employs ...
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Why doesn’t `mv file /dir` move the file to a subdirectory of the current working directory?
I was in my /etc directory and typed the command
me@mylaptop:/etc$ sudo mv MyFile.conf /openvpn
I thought that would move the file into the directory openvpn which is a subdirectory of the /etc ...
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Use php command instead of full path with xampp installation?
I have Xubuntu installation and XAMPP installed on my PC, and everything works great. However, lately I am experimenting a little bit with Laravel framework and a lot of tutorials and people just use ...
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What does // mean in a path?
I was working in my terminal, when I misspelled while cd to root (/). Accidentally, I typed // and I got in terminal:
root@weblocalhost://#
When i type pwd, i get response // but when I type ls -s i ...
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Add path to PATH environment variable for www-data
I'm trying to add /usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-linux to the PATH environment for my Apache user (www-data) after installing TeX Live 2012 manually.
I edited my /etc/environment
export PATH="/...
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Adding a Directory to a Path in .profile
I am new to Ubuntu (coming from Windows 7) and I am trying to add a directory to my system path and for some reason I can't get it to work. I am using Ubuntu version 12.04 LTS
I tried following this ...
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Alternative to Nautilus for copying file paths?
I just moved from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04. A strange behaviour in Files (Nautilus) is that you cannot copy a file path. Instead, it copies
x-special/nautilus-clipboard
copy
file:///home/mywork/test.txt
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Can I feed a bash script a local file into $1 and have it echo the file's absolute path? [duplicate]
Pretty self explanatory.
The first argument should be:
Checked if the file exists
Echo that file's absolute path
For example:
+akiva@akiva-ThinkPad-X230:~$ ./myscript myfile.txt
/home/akiva/...
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Ubuntu has a different PATH when accessed over XRDP session
Noob here: I have a problem, when i access my server via SSH, the $PATH is correct
root@ks391320:~# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
But when i open ...
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Pytest is in PATH but not found
I've installed pytest for python testing, but I get No such file or directory error when simply trying to run it from a project folder.
It's in a location that should be accessible through the PATH ...
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How to open ~/.pam_environment?
I wanted to set environment variables JAVA_HOME and PATH. So I wanted to open ~/.pam_environment since it is the best place to set environment variables relevant to a particular user according to the ...
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How can I sanitize or escape absolute paths returned by realpath or readlink?
realpath and readlink return absolute paths:
+akiva@X230:~$ realpath ZannaIsAwesome
/home/akiva/ZannaIsAwesome
A path like that is easy to deal with. However, something like this is going to have ...
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how to use "update-alternatives" to manage multiple installed version of the same app
I frequently encounter path related problems while compiling or running an app.I have two versions of node in my system, one is from official repo, the other manually installed from source. Today I ...
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How to check what command is taken?
I have a shell script called foo.sh in /usr/local/sbin. Besides I use another script with the same name. It is stored in /home/user/scripts.
Both paths belong to PATH. How can I find out, which one ...
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PATH not working even after successfully modifying it
For some reason I am successful in adding new directories to my $PATH but when I run the commands in the terminal the $PATH doesn't summon them.
I modified the $PATH in the ~/.bashrc file, and added ...
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After installing youtube-dl on Ubuntu 21.10 with the instructions on github many applications, including default text editor, broke
A new user here, running ubuntu on version 21.10 impish.
I was installing youtube-dl with the instructions on the github page (https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl#installation):
$ sudo curl -L ...
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How to find the path of a specific application (Google Chrome)?
I have Google Chrome downloaded on my laptop and I want to find where it is compared to a Windows path use it, basically for a text to speech project.
On Windows it is located here :
chrome_path = '...
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