which/which.1

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