netbsd man page for which

Query: which

OS: netbsd

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WHICH(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  WHICH(1)

NAME
which -- locate a program file in the users $PATH environment variable
SYNOPSIS
which [-a] name [...]
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.
BSD
April 23, 1991 BSD
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