[ale] Ogle Install?

[James Sumners]

Yep. The backticks indicate something which should be typed at a command prompt.

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 1:57 AM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> Marc Ferguson wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 22:26 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
>>> `which ogle`
>> What do you mean which one?  I went to,
>> http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/redhat.shtml, and downloaded
>> v0.9.2-ogle1 RH 7.x i586.
>
> James was rather succinctly telling you that there is a command, called
> 'which', that will tell you the path of the command that would be
> executed if you tried to run its argument. In other words, 'which ogle'
> means "Tell me what file should run if I type ogle and hit enter?"
>
> All 'which' does is search through your path. I can run 'echo $PATH' and
> see that mine is
>
> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
>
> (This is rather boring, I need to copy my primary bashrc to this machine.)
>
> I can run 'strace which ogle' and see that it is searching through my
> path until it finds ogle.
>
> stat("/usr/local/sbin/ogle", 0x7fffb9b0c800) = -1 ENOENT (No such file
> or directory)
> stat("/usr/local/bin/ogle", 0x7fffb9b0c800) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
> stat("/usr/sbin/ogle", 0x7fffb9b0c800)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
> stat("/usr/bin/ogle", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=9586, ...}) = 0
>
> -Brian
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