Choosing "open with" executible file

[Ninlama]

Hi All,

I'm learning a day at a time. I like to listen to streaming classical music from FM websites. When trying to listen to the mp3 version, Firefox asks which program I want to open the file with. I want to listen using VLC. Is there an easy way to choose the program I want to use to listen to a music stream?

In Windows I would have navigated to vlc.exe in the Programs folder under Windows.

Thanks!

Ninlama

[nmaster]

you do basically the same thing in ubuntu. just find where the vlc executable is. if you're not sure, go to a terminal issue this command

 which vlc

[Ninlama]

That works great. Thanks for your help!!!!!

[nmaster]

another lesson (lol): be sure to tag the thread as SOLVED!

[mcduck]

In Windows I would have navigated to vlc.exe in the Programs folder under Windows.

While the "which" command suggested above works really nice, you'll quickly find that pretty much for every program the executable file will be in /usr/bin. Makes sense, since that's the standard location for all executables other than system- and admin-related stuff.

So instead of running "which" you might want to first take a quick look if you can find the executable in /usr/bin/.

[lkjoel]

To find a file (in your case vlc), you simply type:

ls folder | grep "file"

And for your case, it would be:

ls /usr/bin | grep "vlc"

[ajgreeny]

If you installed the mozilla-plugin-vlc it would do that within firefox and not need to start vlc as a separate application. Perhaps you prefer to have the extra control over which app is used each time.

[nmaster]

To find a file (in your case vlc), you simply type:

ls folder | grep "file"

And for your case, it would be:

ls /usr/bin | grep "vlc"

keep in mind that this requires knowing the directory where the file might be. ls is not recursive

if you don't know where the file is, try "locate FILE" . this will search all files currently in the locate database. this database is updated automatically from time to time, but you can manually do it with "sudo updatedb"

the best way to find an executable at the command line, however is by using which. for more information, check out the man page with "man which"