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Hello,
First of all, I'm using Mint 12.

This command is supposed to return the full path name of the files in /usr/bin directory. But it is returning only the base names.

This is a basic command. This works fine in Fedora. Why is it not working in Mint?

Ps. Remember that the wildcard is expanded before ls receive its parameters.

Simply lists the files in that directory, you already know the PATH, that is /usr/bin
--you also don't need the * selection

I think it is not the ls command in itself, but fedora's file system hierarchy method
--where Fedora places their file choices in reference to the FHS system to be compatible with it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesyste ... y_Standard

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fed ... m-fhs.html

perhaps instead of ls /usr/bin use
find /usr/bin

I just curious why this works in fedora, but not in Mint. This is a completely valid shell code.

Never mind! The "problem" is that Mint has a sub-directory (/usr/bin/X11) in '/usr/bin/', instead of only files as I supposed.