I was following instructions to manually setup eclipse kepler in Ubuntu 14.04.

Next create an executable for Eclipe at ~/bin/eclipse with your favorite text editor by typing vi ~/bin/eclipse or nano ~/bin/eclipse into the command line. Add the following content:

export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib/mozilla/"

export ECLIPSE_HOME="$HOME/opt/eclipse"



$ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $*

Finally, allow the script to be executed:

--From EclipseIDE:Preparing your System

I am new to linux so I was just curious to know following things:

1. Why we are setting export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="/usr/lib/mozilla/" for eclipse? How this is related to eclipse?


2. What is $* doing in $ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $*?


3. How are we able to run eclipse.exe in ubuntu? I think $ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse is running eclipse.exe?

My questions could be very basic but I would appreciate any reference/answer. I have tried to search for answer but I am not able to find it.