Philosophy, cookery and geekery

You’ve installed something from package repositories, and, on invoking, it tells you to actually run a certain script first. The script fails because you’re behind a proxy server, but you don’t know where Aptitude put the script in order to edit it. You know it’s in your $PATH, but that’s a lot of directories…

Solution (assuming you use bash):

for inMyPath in `echo $PATH | sed -e 's/:/\\t/g'`;
do
find $inMyPath -name MISSING_FILE;
done


MISSING_FILE is the name of the script (or whatever) that you’re after. This is fairly trivial, I admit, but it took me a while to work out how to do it right (mainly sedding PATH correctly). I’m about to put it into a script of its own for future use.