which(1)                 USER COMMANDS                   which(1)



NAME
     which - locate a command; display its pathname or alias

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/ucb/which [ filename ] ...

DESCRIPTION
     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.

FILES
     ~/.cshrc            source of aliases and path values

SEE ALSO
     csh(1), ksh(1), sh(1) in the User's Reference Manual.

DIAGNOSTICS
     A diagnostic is given for names which are  aliased  to  more
     than  a single word, or if an executable file with the argu-
     ment name was not found in the path.

NOTES
     Only aliases and paths from  ~/.cshrc  are  used;  importing
     from  the  current environment is not attempted.  which must
     be executed by csh(1), since only csh knows  about  aliases.
     If you are using sh instead of csh, whence -v provides simi-
     lar functionality.  To  compensate  for  ~/.cshrc  files  in
     which  aliases  depend  upon  the prompt variable being set,
     which sets this variable.  If the ~/.cshrc  produces  output
     or  prompts  for input when prompt is set, which may produce
     some strange results.





















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