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TITLE
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A2osX which (bin/which) Command Help
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which -- locate a program file in the user's path
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SYNOPSIS
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which program ...
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DESCRIPTION
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The which utility takes a list of command names and searches the path for
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each and will report back which specific executable would have been picked
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up if the command was actually run.
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The which utility accepts the following options:
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-a List all instances found instead of just the first one.
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-s No output, just return 0 if all programs are found, or 1 if
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some were not found.
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EXAMPLES
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Locate the cp and ls commands:
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# which cp ls
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/FULL32/bin/cp
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/FULL32/bin/ls
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Do not show output, just return code:
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# which -s seq
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# echo $?
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0
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# which -s fakecmd
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# echo $?
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1
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HISTORY
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The which command first appeared in FreeBSD 2.1 and was a Perl script
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written by Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>. The A2osX which command
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was developed by Brian J. Bernstein <brian@dronefone.com> in Dec 2022.
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