Find running apps on hard drive

[Clinton MacDonald]

Friends:

Many thanks to Janus Sandsgaard <lister@janus.dk>, Patrick Gast 
<pgast@pgast.com>, Bradley Martin <novacrook@yahoo.com>, and Tobey 
Wheelock <tobey@wheelockweb.com> for their answers to my recent 
questions. Mr. Martin's answer illustrates my conundrum, though:

On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 01:10  AM, Bradley Martin wrote:
>> If you are looking for the location of an application you can find it 
>> using the "locate" command in the terminal, all though you often geta 
>> long list of directories and files related to that program.
>
> isn't this what the 'which' command is for? but then i guess you have 
> to already know the name of the command huh?

Last week I was hunting for the program "KDiskFree" that is available 
in the kicker menu. Every variation of "whereis," "locate," and "which" 
failed to turn up anything for "KDiskFree." Well, it turns out that the 
reason is that the true name of "KDiskFree" is "kdf" (all lower case). 
There is no way, short of a brute force search for everything in every 
directory starting  with the letter "K" or "k," that would reveal that 
fact.

While KDiskFree was running, I tried the "top" command, and it told me 
that the "top" process was using 1.9% of my CPU load, and little else 
of use. It was only in reading the "About" box in the Help menu that I 
got my clue that "KDiskFree" was really "kdf." Sheesh! Is this just a 
Linux Thing(TM), and I should resign myself to the mystery?

There must be a better way!

(Thank you for your indulgence.)

Best wishes,
Clint

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Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | <mailto:clint.macdonald@ttuhsc.edu>