Where are Open Babel files located on my macOS computers?

If you install Open Babel 2.3.1 with the pre-compiled binary package on a macOS computer, you can find its program file location with the "which" command:

fyicenter$ which babel 
  /usr/local/bin/babel
  
fyicenter$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/babel
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  123424 Oct 17  2011 /usr/local/bin/babel

Two library files related to Open Babel are located at /usr/local/lib/:

fyicenter$ ls -l /usr/local/lib 

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root    wheel  3369840 Oct 17  2011 libinchi.0.3.1.dylib
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root    wheel       20 Oct 28  2019 libinchi.0.dylib -> libinchi.0.3.1.dylib
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root    wheel       16 Oct 28  2019 libinchi.dylib -> libinchi.0.dylib
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root    wheel  8059128 Oct 17  2011 libopenbabel.4.0.1.dylib
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root    wheel       24 Oct 28  2019 libopenbabel.4.dylib -> libopenbabel.4.0.1.dylib
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root    wheel       20 Oct 28  2019 libopenbabel.dylib -> libopenbabel.4.dylib
...

Open Babel object code files are located at:

fyicenter$ ls -l /usr/local/lib/openbabel/2.3.1/

-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin   111960 Oct 17  2011 APIInterface.so
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin   141728 Oct 17  2011 CSRformat.so
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin   374016 Oct 17  2011 MCDLformat.so
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin   191136 Oct 17  2011 MNAformat.so
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin   170728 Oct 17  2011 PQSformat.so
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin   169776 Oct 17  2011 abinitformat.so
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin   160416 Oct 17  2011 acrformat.so
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin   298184 Oct 17  2011 adfformat.so
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin   141800 Oct 17  2011 molreport.so
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin   184480 Oct 17  2011 plugin_charges.so
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin   289504 Oct 17  2011 plugin_descriptors.so
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin   266992 Oct 17  2011 plugin_fingerprints.so
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin  1942824 Oct 17  2011 plugin_forcefields.so
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin   915736 Oct 17  2011 plugin_ops.so
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin   274512 Oct 17  2011 pubchem.so
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin   177912 Oct 17  2011 pwscfformat.so
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin   233336 Oct 17  2011 qchemformat.so
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin   178608 Oct 17  2011 reportformat.so
-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin   217864 Oct 17  2011 rsmiformat.so
...

⇒ Open Babel Command Files on macOS

⇐ Install Open Babel Binary Package on macOS

⇑ Running Open Babel on macOS

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