find the executable

anadyr · 2009-01-20 18:43:36

Hi,

I have a slight nuisance. When I install a program from pacman, I sometimes do not know the executable. for instance in the case of gtk2-theme-switch, I had to search different forums to find out that the command is "switch2". And now I want to experiment with gtk-theme-switch, but again I cannot find the executable.
Until a few months ago, there was an option to view the filelist in the packages database, but that option has unfortunately been removed...

Is there another quick way to find the executable of an installed package?

skottish · 2009-01-20 18:49:15

pacman -Ql <your_package> will list all of the files belonging to a package, including the executable.

u_no_hu · 2009-01-20 18:49:52

yes. pacman.

Edit:Damn..you beat me and you spoonfed him

Last edited by u_no_hu (2009-01-20 18:51:13)

sisco311 · 2009-01-20 18:55:14

pacman -Ql package-name

wow, i'm super slow

Last edited by sisco311 (2009-01-20 18:55:54)

chillu · 2009-01-20 18:55:35

u_no_hu wrote:

Edit:Damn..you beat me and you spoonfed him

Better be careful when you're around

sisco311 · 2009-01-20 19:13:51

to list the executables:

for i in `pacman -Ql package-name | awk '{print $2}'`; do if [ -x $i -a ! -d $i ]; then echo $i; fi; done

Ranguvar · 2009-01-20 19:14:53

sisco311 wrote:

to list the executables:
for i in `pacman -Ql package-name | awk '{print $2}'`; do if [ -x $i -a ! -d $i ]; then echo $i; fi; done

Even better than my usual 'pacman -Ql foo | grep \/bin'

*steals* Thanks!

Last edited by Ranguvar (2009-01-20 19:15:07)

anadyr · 2009-01-20 22:10:50

sisco311 wrote:

to list the executables:
for i in `pacman -Ql package-name | awk '{print $2}'`; do if [ -x $i -a ! -d $i ]; then echo $i; fi; done

excellent, it works fine!

sisco311 · 2009-01-21 00:01:23

Cool!

Please mark the thread solved.

Edit the original post and add [SOLVED] to the title.

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Xyne · 2009-01-23 19:01:51

I just wanted to add that I've added a "--find-exe" argument to pacpal which can accept multiple package names as arguments.

der_joachim · 2009-01-23 19:55:08

If you know the name of the executable, using which is even easier. The command

which opera

gives you the following answer:

/usr/bin/opera

Arch Linux

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