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WHICH(1) General Commands Manual WHICH(1)

whichlocate a program file in the users $PATH environment variable

which [-a] name [...]

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.

The which command appeared in 3.0BSD.

This implementation does not expand csh(1) aliases, and is shell agnostic. This is really a feature.

April 23, 1991 NetBSD-9.2