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| WHICH(1) |
General Commands Manual |
WHICH(1) |
NAME¶
which - locate a command
SYNOPSIS¶
which [-a] filename ...
DESCRIPTION¶
which returns the pathnames of the files (or links) which would be
executed in the current environment, had its arguments been given as commands
in a strictly POSIX-conformant shell. It does this by searching the PATH for
executable files matching the names of the arguments. It does not canonicalize
path names.
OPTIONS¶
- -a
- print all matching pathnames of each argument
EXIT STATUS¶
- 0
- if all specified commands are found and executable
- 1
- if one or more specified commands is nonexistent or not executable
- 2
- if an invalid option is specified
