which(1BSD)          (BSD System Compatibility)          which(1BSD)


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

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

       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

       REFERENCES
             csh(1), ksh(1), sh(1)

       DIAGNOSTICS
             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.

       NOTICES
             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 similar 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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