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WHICH(1)                                                              WHICH(1)



NAME
       which - shows the full path of (shell) commands.

SYNOPSIS
       which [options] [--] programname [...]

DESCRIPTION
       Which takes one or more arguments. For each of its arguments it prints to stdout
       the full path of the executables that would have been executed when this argument
       had been entered at the shell prompt. It does this by searching for an executable
       or script in the directories listed in the environment variable PATH using the same
       algorithm as bash(1).

       This man page is generated from the file which.texinfo.

OPTIONS
       --all, -a
           Print all matching executables in PATH, not just the first.

       --read-alias, -i
           Read aliases from stdin, reporting matching ones on stdout. This is useful in
           combination with using an alias for which itself. For example
           alias which=?alias | which -i?.

       --skip-alias
           Ignore option `--read-alias?, if any. This is useful to explicity search for
           normal binaries, while using the `--read-alias? option in an alias or function
           for which.

       --read-functions
           Read shell function definitions from stdin, reporting matching ones on stdout.
           This is useful in combination with using a shell function for which itself.
           For example:
           which() { declare -f | which --read-functions $@ }
           export -f which

       --skip-functions
           Ignore option `--read-functions?, if any. This is useful to explicity search
           for normal binaries, while using the `--read-functions? option in an alias or
           function for which.

       --skip-dot
           Skip directories in PATH that start with a dot.

       --skip-tilde
           Skip directories in PATH that start with a tilde and executables which reside
           in the HOME directory.

       --show-dot
           If a directory in PATH starts with a dot and a matching executable was found
           for that path, then print "./programname" rather than the full path.

       --show-tilde
           Output a tilde when a directory matches the HOME directory. This option is
           ignored when which is invoked as root.

       --tty-only
           Stop processing options on the right if not on tty.

       --version,-v,-V
           Print version information on standard output then exit successfully.

       --help
           Print usage information on standard output then exit successfully.

RETURN VALUE
       Which returns the number of failed arguments, or -1 when no `programname? was
       given.

EXAMPLE
       The recommended way to use this utility is by adding an alias (C shell) or shell
       function (Bourne shell) for which like the following:

       [ba]sh:

            which ()
            {
              (alias; declare -f) | /usr/bin/which --tty-only --read-alias --read-functions --show-tilde --show-dot $@
            }
            export -f which

       [t]csh:

            alias which ?alias | /usr/bin/which --tty-only --read-alias --show-dot --show-tilde?

       This  will print the readable ~/ and ./ when starting which from your prompt, while
       still printing the full path when used from a script:

            > which q2
            ~/bin/q2
            > echo `which q2`
            /home/carlo/bin/q2


BUGS
       The HOME directory is determined by looking  for  the  HOME  environment  variable,
       which  aborts when this variable doesn?t exist.  Which will consider two equivalent
       directories to be different when one of them contains a path with a symbolic  link.

AUTHOR
       Carlo Wood <carlo AT gnu.org>

SEE ALSO
       bash(1)



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