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Find Program's Location
Use the which
command to find the location of a program on the system. This is particularly useful when you are trying to figure out which version of Python is currently set in the environment.
Find Program’s Location
which python3
/home/chris/anaconda3/bin/python3
Just to prove that this is true, we can change directory, cd
, to that location and find the file itself.
Go To Program’s Location
cd /home/chris/anaconda3/bin/
List Contents Of Directory
The python*
selection means we are only listing files starting with python
.
ls -l python*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 chris chris 9 Oct 11 2017 python -> python3.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 chris chris 9 Oct 11 2017 python3 -> python3.6
-rwxrwxr-x 1 chris chris 3747848 Oct 11 2017 python3.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 chris chris 17 Oct 11 2017 python3.6-config -> python3.6m-config
lrwxrwxrwx 1 chris chris 9 Oct 11 2017 python3.6m -> python3.6
-rwxrwxr-x 1 chris chris 3249 Oct 11 2017 python3.6m-config
lrwxrwxrwx 1 chris chris 17 Oct 11 2017 python3-config -> python3.6m-config
And there it is! Both python
and python3
are symbolic links to python3.6
.