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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991 Regents of the University of California. |
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32 | .\" @(#)which.1 6.3 (Berkeley) 4/23/91 | |
33 | .\" | |
34 | .Dd April 23, 1991 | |
35 | .Dt WHICH 1 | |
36 | .Os BSD 3 | |
37 | .Sh NAME | |
38 | .Nm which | |
39 | .Nd "locate a program file including aliases and paths" | |
40 | .Pq Xr csh 1 | |
41 | only) | |
42 | .Sh SYNOPSIS | |
43 | .Nm which | |
44 | .Op Ar name | |
45 | .Ar ... | |
46 | .Sh DESCRIPTION | |
47 | .Nm Which | |
48 | takes a list of names and looks for the files which would be | |
49 | executed had these names been given as commands. | |
50 | Each argument is expanded if it is aliased, | |
51 | and searched for along the user's path. | |
52 | Both aliases and path are taken from the user's | |
53 | .Pa \&.cshrc | |
54 | file. | |
55 | .Sh FILES | |
56 | .Bl -tag -width ~/\&.cshrc | |
57 | .It Pa ~/\&.cshrc | |
58 | source of aliases and path values | |
59 | .El | |
60 | .Sh DIAGNOSTICS | |
61 | A diagnostic is given for names which are aliased to more than a single | |
62 | word, | |
63 | or if an executable file with the argument name was not found in the path. | |
64 | .Sh BUGS | |
65 | Must be executed by a | |
66 | .Xr csh 1 , | |
67 | or some other shell which knows about aliases. | |
68 | .Sh HISTORY | |
69 | The | |
70 | .Nm | |
71 | command appeared in | |
72 | .Bx 3.0 . |