Query: which
OS: opendarwin
Section: 1
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WHICH(1) BSD General Commands Manual WHICH(1)NAMEwhich -- locate a program file in the user's pathSYNOPSISwhich [name] ...DESCRIPTIONwhich takes a list of names and looks for the files which would be executed had these names been given as commands. Each argument is expanded if it is aliased, and searched for along the user's path. Both aliases and path are taken from the user's .cshrc file.FILES~/.cshrc source of aliases and path valuesDIAGNOSTICSA diagnostic is given for names which are aliased to more than a single word, or if an executable file with the argument name was not found in the path.BUGSMust be executed by a csh(1), or some other shell which knows about aliases.HISTORYThe which command appeared in 3.0BSD. 3rd Berkeley Distribution April 23, 1991 3rd Berkeley Distribution