WHICH(1)

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✨ WHICH(1) — General Commands Manual ✨

💖 NAME

which - locate a command 🔍

🎀 SYNOPSIS

which [-as] filename ...

💅 DESCRIPTION

okay so bestie, which is literally the detective of your terminal 🕵️‍♀️✨ it tells you the pathnames of the files (or links) that would get executed in the current environment, if you gave its arguments as commands to a strictly POSIX-conformant shell. 🫶 it does this by searching the PATH for executable files that match the names you hand it. 🌸

and ngl, it does not canonicalize path names, so what you see is what you get 🙈

🦋 OPTIONS

  • -a — print all matching pathnames of each argument, not just the first one 👑
  • -s — silently return 0 if all of the executables were found, or 1 otherwise 🤫

🔥 EXIT STATUS

  • 0 — if all specified commands are found and executable ✨ slay
  • 1 — if one or more specified commands is nonexistent or not executable 😭
  • 2 — if an invalid option is specified 💀

Debian · 29 Jun 2016 · WHICH(1) 🌈 that's the whole tea, bestie, love you 💜

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