# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE: # The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. Line # up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and the '|' # on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. You must # make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also # customary to leave one space after the ':'. |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------| which: which (shows the full path to shell commands) which: which: GNU 'which' takes one or more arguments. For each of its arguments it which: prints to stdout the full path of the executables that would have been which: executed when this argument had been entered at the shell prompt. It which: does this by searching for an executable or script in the directories which: listed in the environment variable PATH using the same algorithm as which: bash(1). 'Which' is a built-in function in many shells. which: which: The GNU version of which was written by Carlo Wood. which: