Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 25, 2005 06:05 PM
whereis is alright,<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/if/ you're after all that information. What if you just want the first bit of information, the path of the executable? This is why we have which:
which whatis<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/bin/whatis
And ofcourse df can be made more useful with the -h switch - it presents the sizes in figures that are a bit more human-readable: MBs/GBs where appropriate instead of KBs... I have a 30GB drive. This is quite small by today's standards. Why would I look at the used space on it in terms of kilobytes?
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 25, 2005 06:05 PMwhich whatis<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/usr/bin/whatis
And ofcourse df can be made more useful with the -h switch - it presents the sizes in figures that are a bit more human-readable: MBs/GBs where appropriate instead of KBs... I have a 30GB drive. This is quite small by today's standards. Why would I look at the used space on it in terms of kilobytes?
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