Program name / start command

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 10/23/06, SteVe Cook <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Is there an easy way to find the command to to start a program?

Try running:

$ APP="Firefox Web Browser"; awk 'BEGIN { a=0 } /Name='"${APP}"'/ {
a=1 } /Exec/ && a==1 { print $0; a=0 }'
/usr/share/applications/*desktop
Exec=firefox %u

So, in this case, you can use firefox.

If you substitute "Firefox Web Browser" for the name that appears on
your Ubuntu menu, eventually you will be able to find the name of the
executable.

HTH.


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