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No problem.
I'm afraid I have no idea what "setup" you are talking about. I'm not aware of any shell command or program named "setup", so it must be something specific to slackware. I haven't run slackware for abotu 10 years, so I can't really answer that question.
Yes. The various shells (bash, zsh, tcsh, ash, ksh, sh) all have internal, built-in commands just like the DOS command.com did. If you type a command that isn't built-in to the shell, it looks for an executable file of that name somewhere.
Sorry, I don't know what "setup" is.
One sort of Linux executable file is a "script" which consists of a text file containing program statements and "comment" in the first line which specifies the name of the interpreter:
This is a bash script:
Vardan Kushnir Commands and executable files are basicly just two synonymous words. So, you are asking -How to find executable files? Well, they can live anywhere, and be of any sort that the...
#!-bin-bash echo "hello world"
You can look at the source for script files directly using any text editor.
For "internal" commands, you'll have to look at the source code for the shell you're running.
For "external" commands (like .exe files under DOS), you'll have to look at the source code for the command in question.
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