[ubuntu-uk] Wrong version of Firefox

Johnathon Tinsley kirrus at kirrus.co.uk
Fri Sep 19 13:39:26 BST 2008


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Matthew Wild wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Johnathon Tinsley <kirrus at kirrus.co.uk> wrote:
>> No change, even after removing and re-installing firefox again. How do
>> you tell which firefox binary is fired on the command "firefox"?
>>
> 
>  ls -l $(which firefox)
> 

Thanks! :)

Using ls -l `which firefox` we worked out that we were calling the wrong
binary. Out of interest, whats the difference between $(command) and
`command` in bash shell?

Johnathon

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