Re: Firefox Panel Icon Loads Swiftfox

On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 06:03 -0700, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
What do you get from:
ls -l $(which firefox)
ls -l $(firefox) loaded another 2 instances of firefox

Not "ls -l $(firefox)" - "ls -l $(which firefox)". Big difference.

Didn't know the the ls command could load a program.???

It can't. The shell looks at "$(which firefox)" and runs the stuff
between the parentheses, then provides the output as a parameter to "ls
-l". You can get the same effect with backticks: "ls -l `which
firefox`".

Regards, K

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