Names of binaries

[Peter Teuben]

I totally agree with you, i find it very annoying that the GUI is labeled
with a generic name. Sometimes it's just faster , but sometimes dangerous
too, to start an app from terminal. maybe a hover over, if it exists, could
reveal the executable.
Of course between e.g. kde and gnome they may even use different names.

I've been impressed that some shells now have smart completion. Looking
into makefile, even the remote filesystem when I do SCP
So something with case too?  Firefox vs. Firefox.

But don't get me started on my standard trick to piss off Mac users:

   Try:   touch a ; mkdir A

On a Mac. Almost ever Mac user doesn't understand what's going on . Make
them smile


On Wed, May 26, 2021, 12:34 Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:

> Typically, in a GUI system interface, there is a "dock" or "panel" or
> something with an icon for every user application that is executing.
>
> Most of these are the result of the user having clicked on a menu entry
> or a desktop icon.
>
> Is there a way to find the name and location of the actual binary of the
> application. I know you can list all processes with ps, but many
> applications are run from a shell script, which calls a language
> processor, which fires up a stub, which finally causes the app to run,
> and sorting them out from ps ax can be tricky.
>
> Peter
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