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Re: OK, break it down for me... (question about gzip)
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Re: OK, break it down for me... (question about gzip)


  • Subject: Re: OK, break it down for me... (question about gzip)
  • From: Graham Cox <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 16:25:03 +1000

On 08/06/2010, at 4:16 PM, Stephen J. Butler wrote:

> b) In a working OS X system, the unix executables will always be where
> they're supposed to be (ie: /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, etc).


Thanks Stephen, so given the four choices I looked at each and find zip in /usr/bin

The question is can I be sure it's there on every system, no matter how the user is logged in? i.e. can I hard-code the path? If not, what is a reliable way to find the location programmatically?

--Graham


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