Installing apps from the terminal

Hi everyone,
I would like to know how it's possible for the terminal in Linux to find the correct app just based on the name. For instance, if I put in "firefox" then it knows to install that app. But what if someone on the web made a malicious file and called it "firefox?" Wouldn't the terminal run the risk of installing that instead?
brian

briandc wrote:
oboedad55 wrote:
briandc wrote:
Hi everyone,
I would like to know how it's possible for the terminal in Linux to find the correct app just based on the name. For instance, if I put in "firefox" then it knows to install that app. But what if someone on the web made a malicious file and called it "firefox?" Wouldn't the terminal run the risk of installing that instead?
brian
1. Because /usr/bin is in your path.
2. How would that happen?
But can't the terminal install anything off the web?
I know that you are new to Arch, but this is coming across as either wilfully ignorant or plain trolling. Please--as has already been pointed out to you politely--read the documentation and desist from asking these sorts of inflammatory/inane questions.

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