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WHICH(1)							      WHICH(1)

NAME

which - locate a command

SYNOPSIS

which [-a] filename ...

DESCRIPTION

which returns the pathnames of the files 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 arguments.

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 exe- cutable 2 if an invalid option is specified Debian 12 Jul 2004 WHICH(1)

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