NAME

which — locate executable within PATH

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The which utility scans PATH for each given executable name, unless it contains a slash where then name is simply printed out.

which shall not be used when the standard sh(1) builtin command -v name can be used instead.

OPTIONS

-a

List all matching executables.

-s

Do not print executable names.

EXIT STATUS

The which utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

HISTORY

A which command first appeared in 3.0BSD.

The -a option first appeared in OpenBSD 2.3.

AUTHORS

Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact+utils@hacktivis.me>