Is Running programs by address common?

Posted by dgood1 on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by dgood1
Published on 2013-06-26T02:13:56Z Indexed on 2013/06/26 4:28 UTC
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I have read some of the things posted here and I keep reading about people running stuff like /foldername/executable -cmd NAME

(was reading about a programmer using Eclipse, so he was testing something he made)

I don't see things like that when I run things here (Ubuntu 12.04) because of the launcher and the Ubuntu button at the very top. That and Eclipse indigo has a button for running and testing things it makes.

Just asking how and why it's common?

(assuming it's the Terminal[Ctrl+alt+T] but I'm not sure)

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