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Ambiguously named executables

It appears that in tcsh if I have ambiguously named executables in two separate folders in the $PATH it directs to the one in the most recently created folder. Am I correct? And is this always true? ...
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How to change which program is executed by default

Surely this is an easy question, that I just don't know how to search for, but if I have two identically named executable files, one in /usr and one in /usr/local (for example), how can I change which ...
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Executable located in location A how to run it in location B?

So, I've an executable in my debian server and this executable located in /home/human/ExecuteIt, still i cant figure it out how to run my executable in another location. In my case it is ...
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Applying and linking all settings/binaries of one user to another user in Linux

In a linux machine, we may have to compile our programs with respect to that linux machine. Now, if we already have some other users (not root. A typical user.) who have already compiled many ...
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Create a command for a Linux executable file

I'm using a program called node-webkit, but I can't start the program without specifying the full path to the executable file. Is there any way to associate a command (such as node-webkit) with an ...
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Why do so many programs live in PATH?

One thing that puzzles me about desktop Linux, at least, is that just about everything is in my PATH. By everything, I mean every desktop application, including things like gnome-character-map and ...
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Using emacsclient with custom emacs in $PATH

I want to use emacs command as a substitution for emacsclient -c -a "", which according to man connects to an existing emacs daemon, or creates a new daemon and connects to it otherwise. So i created ...
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Finding program name by wildcard pattern

I am trying to write a script that will attempt to find if a certain program is installed. Lets say that the program is called, myprog. The problem is that the program can be named in different ...
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Access PgSQL executables from anywhere

I've installed PgSQL 9.1.2 from PostgreSQL repositories and all it's fine except that I can't execute command from every path in my OS. For example suppose that I want to run the command pg_dump: for ...
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Where do executables look for shared objects at runtime

The title is pretty explicit. I understand how to define include shared objects at linking/compile time. However I still wonder how do executables look for the shared object (*.so libraries) at ...
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How to run my own program without specifying its path

Let's suppose I have compiled something and I run it like so: $ /path/to/my/executable/mycmd Hello World What do I need to do to run it like $ mycmd Hello World from everywhere in my computer? ...
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Problem with calling program from the command line [closed]

Note: this is a cross post with this post on SO. I am trying to build a command line wrapper in Python 3 for an exiting command line tool called 'spooky' and I am having a hard time understanding ...
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Problem with $PATH and executable file

I am a complete unix noob so please forgive my simple question. I have a unix executable file located in a directory I generated. I believe I need to get this directory in my $PATH so that the unix ...