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WHICH(1) General Commands Manual WHICH(1) NAME which -- locate a program file in the user's path SYNOPSIS which [-as] program ... DESCRIPTION The which utility takes a list of command names and searches the path for each executable file that would be run had these commands actually been in- voked. The following options are available: -a List all instances of executables found (instead of just the first one of each). -s No output, just return 0 if all of the executables are found, or 1 if some were not found. Some shells may provide a builtin which command which is similar or identi- cal to this utility. Consult the builtin(1) manual page. EXAMPLES Locate the ls(1) and cp(1) commands: $ /usr/bin/which ls cp /bin/ls /bin/cp Same as above with a specific PATH and showing all occurrences: $ PATH=/bin:/rescue /usr/bin/which -a ls cp /bin/ls /rescue/ls /bin/cp /rescue/cp which will show duplicates if the same executable is found more than once: $ PATH=/bin:/bin /usr/bin/which -a ls /bin/ls /bin/ls Do not show output. Just exit with an appropriate return code: $ /usr/bin/which -s ls cp $ echo $? 0 $ /usr/bin/which -s fakecommand $ echo $? 1 SEE ALSO builtin(1), csh(1), find(1), locate(1), whereis(1) HISTORY The which command first appeared in FreeBSD 2.1. AUTHORS The which utility was originally written in Perl and was contributed by Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>. The current version of which was rewritten in C by Daniel Papasian <dpapasia@andrew.cmu.edu>. FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly September 24, 2020 WHICH(1)
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