Re: [CentOS] What's the Linux equivelant of an exe file?

Dave Gutteridge wrote:

This is one of those questions that seems to be soo obvious to people that no one feels the need to have an explanation anywhere. I've been looking around the net for ages, and I can't figure out what, on Linux, is actually a program.

file '/path/to/file' will tell you. But you still need to give execute permissions.

I've downloaded OpenOffice 1.9 Beta, and would like to run it. I go to the /opt/openoffice.org1.9.122/program/ directory and... then what? What do I run to start the thing? I've hunted around with ls, and I thought bin files were the thing, but they don't seem to run.

use ls -l

Files with a 'x' in the permissions are executable.

oowrite or something like that for word processing.