<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><br></div><div>On Nov 1, 2011, at 15:01, nick rundy <<a href="mailto:nrundy@hotmail.com">nrundy@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div> <style></style> <div dir="ltr"> I came to ubuntu from Windows. And one thing Windows does well is make it easy to find an executable file (i.e., it's in C:\Program Files\). Finding an executable file in Ubuntu is frustrating & lacks organization that makes sense to users. Fedora is considering a fix for this issue. I think Ubuntu should do the same.<br><br>Here's a link to an article that talks about Fedora's idea: <a href="http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-considers-moving-all-binaries-to-usr-bin-1369642.html?view=print">http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-considers-moving-all-binaries-to-usr-bin-1369642.html?view=print</a> <br> </div> </div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>-- </span><br><span>Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a></span><br><span>Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss</a></span><br></div></blockquote><br><div>Hi, learn about file permissions. In a terminal, cd to the directory you are looking for an executable, then use ls. Try man ls for more info, but ls -l ( l as in lamba) will show what is executable and lots of other info. </div><div>Let me know if/ how it works out. </div><div>Alexander</div></body></html>