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WHICH(1)                NetBSD General Commands Manual                WHICH(1)


NAME

     which - locate a program file including aliases and paths (csh(1) only)


SYNOPSIS

     which [-a] name [...]


DESCRIPTION

     which takes a list of names and looks for the files which would be exe-
     cuted 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.

     If the -a flag is given, which will continue to search the PATH until all
     instances of a program file are found.


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.


HISTORY

     The which command appeared in 3.0BSD.


BUGS

     Must be executed by a csh(1), or some other shell which knows about
     aliases.

NetBSD 2.0.2                    April 23, 1991                    NetBSD 2.0.2