NAME
which —
locate a program file in the
users $PATH environment variable
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
which takes a list of names and looks for the files which
would be executed had these names been given as commands. Each argument is
searched for along the user's
PATH
.
If the
-a flag is given,
which will continue
to search the
PATH
until all instances of a program
file are found.
HISTORY
The
which command appeared in
3.0BSD.
BUGS
This implementation does not expand
csh(1) aliases, and is shell
agnostic. This is really a feature.