Questions tagged [paths]
Questions related to path in networking, file system and OS.
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When to use a preceding slash in path names? (e.g. for the 'cd' command)
I am a novice user and I am trying to install Oracle Java. The process calls for me to access /usr/local/java, but here is the problem. I get as far as /usr/local, then this is the message I get:
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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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 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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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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After installing binary to another directory, error "No such file or directory"
After uninstalling a program with apt and reinstalling it in another location (ex. pypy with snap), running the program from command line reports bash: /usr/bin/pypy: No such file or directory, but ...
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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 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 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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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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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 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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What is the difference between local and .local in ubuntu?
Echoing path in ubuntu returns following colon separated paths,
/home/stack/bin:/home/stack/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/...
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ifconfig : Command 'ifconfig' is available in '/sbin/ifconfig'
My question is related to another open question. My echo $PATH gives me an output which is like
/home/sahil/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p125/bin:/home/sahil/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p125@global/bin:/home/...
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How to log in after wrongly modifying path
I wanted to add a path so that the system could find some manually installed executable. However, instead of typing PATH=xxx:$PATH;export PATH at the end of ~/.profile where xxx is the directory in ...
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Can I make `sudo` follow my path via CLI?
You can edit sudoers file and set secure_path to match your path. This is documented in Unix & Linux.
Is there a command line switch I can pass to sudo such that it uses the path I have set? For ...
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Problem in .bashrc
I try to edit .bashrc to view the C-compilers that I installed before.
But after opening the new terminal I am stuck with strange error.
I am unable to ls the files/directories and nothing works. It ...
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How to install packages to /opt or any other folder instead of their original path?
Some packages, like Adobe Reader and NetBeans, allow installation to /opt folder for global use. However, what should I do to install regular applications to the /opt folder?
Do I have an option to ...
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What is an object path?
This man page has the following section:
udisksctl unmount {--object-path OBJECT | --block-device DEVICE}
What is an OBJECT? I tried to give it a path (i.e. media/tim/name) but it doesn't accept ...
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How to change python3 path pointer?
I am using Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS with python version 3.9.5 installed.
When I type which python in the terminal, it shows /usr/bin/python which is the default path for python2 (2.7 in my case).
But when I ...
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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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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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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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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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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=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/home/lclab/installed/...
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Is ./ (dot slash) a command?
Core of the question:
The question arose while I could not install the software, so I am genuinely asking about ./ because I didn't know about it and the output "command not found" was confusing me ...
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Alt+F2 (Run Application) doesn't work for custom commands
In order to speed up Android development, I've edited my ~/.bashrc to add some paths to PATH:
export PATH=${PATH}:/opt/android-sdk/tools:/opt/android-sdk/platform-tools
This works just fine from the ...
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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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Having a list of paths, how can I filter out subdirectories of previously mentioned paths?
Let's say I have a sorted list of absolute paths, like the one in my answer here (shortened and modified for this question):
/proc
/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
/run
/run/...
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"Pointers" with $ Syntax in /etc/environment
Is it valid to have "pointers" in /etc/environment using $FOO syntax? Right now my /etc/environment looks like this:
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk
MAVEN_HOME=/usr/bin/apache-maven/apache-...
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Why does `which` point to a different binary? [duplicate]
I have 2 versions of curl installed on my system, one with http2 support.
I thought I could use which to point to the binary, but it doesn't seem to work the way I expect.
$ curl --http2 -I https://...
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How to make aliases for file paths?
I have many folders on my machine, many of those folders have more folders within them, more folders within those folders, and so on... Now when I am doing certain cd and cp operations that I do every ...
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How to solve "Please make sure libcudnn_cnn_infer.so.8 is in your library path!" (WSL Ubuntu)
When I try to run a PyTorch program, it fails:
Could not load library libcudnn_cnn_infer.so.8. Error: libcuda.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Please make sure ...
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I am unable to close octave [duplicate]
I had a problem with installing Octave. Now I am unable to close it once it is opened. And I am unable to shutdown the computer. What path should I set, what /etc/environment should I set?
I had used ...
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Add executable to Path
I know this question has been asked a hundred times but for some reason all the answers aren't working on my system.
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04
I'm trying to add the file activator to my PATH so that I ...
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opencv python fails to load image
I am following this tutorial
The suggested code is:
import numpy as np
import cv2
# Load an color image in grayscale
img = cv2.imread('messi5.jpg',0)
cv2.imshow('image',img)
cv2.waitKey(0)
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why is sudo not working with exported path?
If not sure if this is close to (or even a duplicate of) Why does sudo not add root's PATH with Ubuntu 12.04?, I'm still posting this question because I didn't understand anything from there, if ...
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Added folders to PATH cannot be found using sudo [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Environment variables when run with 'sudo'
I've added a new folder to my path, but when running the programs (in that folder) with "sudo" it does not work.
When I ...
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