Where is the cupsctl terminal executable on MacOSX?

Question

I've looked everywhere, and can't seem to find cupsctl anywhere. I assume it's a lot like echo or sh, it's just an executable with a PATH variable sat somewhere on the system. In order for me to call an NSTask from an Obj-C app I'm working on, I need to know where it is.

Answer 1

Use the UNIX find command to search your entire disk starting at the root

e.g. find / -name 'cupsctl'

Shouldn't actually take all that long assuming an average sized SSD. A couple of seconds on my Mac

$ sudo find / -name 'cupsctl' 2> /dev/null 
/usr/sbin/cupsctl

or, as it's OS X, if you have spotlight indexes you could use mdfind

mdfind -name 'cupsctl'

which returns instantly with a few results, most of which are Safari history for this page :-)