WHICH(1) BSD General Commands Manual WHICH(1)NAME
which -- locate a program file in the user's path
SYNOPSIS
which [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
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 values
DIAGNOSTICS
A 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.
BUGS
Must be executed by a csh(1), or some other shell which knows about aliases.
HISTORY
The which command appeared in 3.0BSD.
3rd Berkeley Distribution April 23, 1991 3rd Berkeley Distribution
Check Out this Related Man Page
which(1) User Commands which(1)NAME
which - locate a command and display its pathname or alias
SYNOPSIS
which [name]...
DESCRIPTION
which takes a list of names and determines which alias or utility would be executed had these names been given as commands.
For each name operand, if it names an alias the alias is expanded. Otherwise the user's path is searched for a utility name matching name.
Aliases are taken from the user's .cshrc file. path is taken from the current shell execution environment.
OPERANDS
The following operand is supported:
name The name of a command to be located.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
>0 One or more name operands were not located or an error occurred.
FILES
~/.cshrc source of aliases and path values
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO csh(1), attributes(5)DIAGNOSTICS
A 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.
NOTES
The which utility is not a shell built-in command.
BUGS
To compensate for ~/.cshrc files in which aliases depend upon the prompt variable being set, which sets this variable to NULL. If the
~/.cshrc produces output or prompts for input when prompt is set, which can produce some strange results.
SunOS 5.11 30 Mar 2005 which(1)
hii all.
I have to get the date of the 7th day past from the current date.
if i give the current date as sep 3 then i must get the date as 27th of august.
can we get the values from the "cal" command.
cal | awk '{print $2}' will this type of command work.
actually my need is
if today is... (17 Replies)
hey every1, i am a very new shell programmer. what i am trying to do is to rename a music file using its metadata(using mminfo)
the problem is, mminfo's output is very weird:
my final filename should be "$artist - $title"
however, when i use
artist=` mminfo ~/Desktop/It\'s\ Not\ My\... (16 Replies)
I am on Solaris 10
cat /etc/release
Solaris 10 10/09 s10x_u8wos_08a X86
Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 16 September 2009 (16 Replies)
Hi,
I've got a query regarding which of the following is more efficient & why -
cat <filename>|cut -d'*' -f2- > <newfilename>
or
cut -d'*' -f2- <filename> > <newfilename>
Thanks. (17 Replies)
Hi, Im not a unix person but need to analyse some data.
This is bat data (animals) from large roosts using data loggers.
I think AWK is probably the best thing to use but dont really know so any help appreciated.
(python, grep) whichever it is, I'll have to learn it!
here is an example of... (27 Replies)
SunOS 5.10 Generic_142900-15 sun4v sparc SUNW,T5240
how can i check the storage type being used in unix solaris sparc system?
please help me its urgnet..
thank you (22 Replies)
Hello,
I tried searching through lot of threads for a solution but couldn't fetch the exact solution, so I am creating a new thread.
I am trying to connect to a FTP server
1) using a simple FTP command, it gives the error :
534 Policy requires SSL.
Login failed.
2) using SFTP... (19 Replies)
Hi ,
I wants to create the bash script for deleting the specified 2gb file and wants to take the backup before doing that.
please help me how to do the same,I use RHEL5 server (22 Replies)
Hello
I am using a grep command with two patterns in my KSH script. File has line breaks in it and both the patterns are in different lines. Here is the command grep -l 'RITE AID.*ST.820' natriter820u.20140914
Pattern1 - RITE AID
Pattern2 - ST*820
I am not getting any results from... (24 Replies)
I have a test file a.txt
001 123 456 789
002 This is just a
001 test data
003 file.
I want to clear columns 5 and 6 if the first 3 characters are 001 using awk.
I tried following but does not work. Any suggestions?
awk 'BEGIN{OFS=FS=""} {if (substr($0,1,3)=="123") $5=" "; $6="... (20 Replies)
I have Linux x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I thought that Linux can use only bash shell
however, when I wrote the code:
#!/bin/sh
NAME=`basename $0 .sh`
Today=`date '+%Y%m%d'`
TIMESTAMP=`date +%H:%M:%S`
LOCAL_SERVER=`hostname`
let countcla=0
countcla=`expr ${countcla} + 1`
... (18 Replies)
Remove duplicate lines which has been repeated 4 times attached test.txt
below command tried and not getting expect output.
for i in `cat test.txt | uniq`
do
num=`cat test.txt | grep $i | wc -l`
echo $i $num
done
test.txt
... (17 Replies)
Hello All,
I was thinking to start this POLL, sometime back but couldn't get time so starting it today. So we all work either as an Admin or as a Developer or as a QA etc. So let's have a thread(POLL) where we could share our experiences(if it doesn't come anyone's privacy category) so that we... (17 Replies)
Most of the people think that they can not use Unix as desktop.
By this poll we gone tell them that we not just use Unix as desktop but also love different display managers like GNOME, KDE etc..... (35 Replies)