which(1) manual page
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which - locate a command; display its pathname or alias
which
[ filename ] ...
SUNWcsu
which takes a list of names
and looks for the files which would be executed 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.
- ~/.cshrc
- source of aliases and path values
- /usr/bin/which
-
csh(1)
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.
which is not a shell built-in command;
it is the UNIX command, /usr/bin/which
Only aliases and paths from
~/.cshrc are used; importing from the current environment is not attempted.
Must be executed by csh(1)
, since only csh knows about aliases.
To compensate
for ~/.cshrc files in which aliases depend upon the prompt variable being
set, which sets this variable to NULL.
If the ~/.cshrc produces output or
prompts for input when prompt is set, which may produce some strange results.
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