How to find /usr/bin/gedit?

Question

I can open gedit using the terminal but I want to be able to open the folder that has gedit, how?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 14 '19 at 15:13

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Use whereis to locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command

$ whereis gedit
gedit: /usr/bin/gedit /usr/lib/gedit /usr/share/gedit /usr/share/man/man1/gedit.1.gz

answered Apr 14 '19 at 15:13

Mike

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 14 '19 at 16:44

For search files and directories use:

find / -name gedit

Just for searching directories:

find / -name gedit -type d

Other example applying this command find ... that end with the characters "test":

find /home/enduser/ -name "*test"

or that begin with the characters"ged":

find / -name "ged*"

Don´t forget to checkout privileges or permission level when you´re looking for files or directories, sometimes require a Super User.

Hope this helps.

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