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Man Page: which

Operating Environment: posix

Section: 1

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 argu- ments. 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 Debian 29 Jun 2016 WHICH(1)
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