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WHICH
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 16 May 1999
Index NAME
which - show full path of commands
SYNOPSIS
which [
options]
progname ... DESCRIPTION
whichprints the full pathname for each
progname.It does this by looking in every directory found in the PATH environmentvariable.
In contrast to the standard which command this version prints anyoccurence of progname.Furthermore progname may contain the shell wildcard ``?''and ``*''.
OPTIONS
The following options are mutually exclusive.
- -e
- don't print anything, just return an exit code.
- -l
- do an ``ls -l'' for each occurence of progname.
- -s
- print only the first occurence.
EXAMPLES
The following does what the usual
which command also does,
which -s ls
it prints the location of the ls command.
which ls
looks for the ls command in every PATH directory.
which 'ls*'
lists all command starting with ``ls''.
which '*'
lists all available commands.
NOTES
which is an
akanga(1) shell script.If you are working with
bash(1) you'll perhaps to disable the
which alias in
/etc/profile.
Index
- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- OPTIONS
- EXAMPLES
- NOTES
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