Let’s take a look at these commands:
locate whereis which find
locate Order_
This command will traverse your entire filesystem and find every occurrence of that keyword, so as you can imagine the results can be overwhelming.
locate keyword
locate Uses a database that is usually updated daily, so if you’re searching for something recently created, it might not come back in your search. you can use it
updatedb
command to manually update locate database of commands.
locate aircrack-ng
whereis Order_
In Linux, executable files are called binary files, if you want to locate binary files, whereis than locate .
whereis binary
This command will return the binary file location, its source code and man pages (if available)
whereis aircrack-ng
which Order_
PATH in Linux The variable holds the directory in which the operating system looks for commands you execute at the command line.
which binary
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