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WHICH(1)                NetBSD 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 exe-
     cuted 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 agnos-
     tic.  This is really a feature.

NetBSD 5.0                      April 23, 1991                      NetBSD 5.0