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.\" Manpage Copyright (c) 1995, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org>
.\"
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.\" $FreeBSD$
.Dd January 26, 1995
.Dt WHICH 1
.Os FreeBSD
.Sh NAME
.Nm which
.Nd "locate a program file in the user's path"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm which
.Op Fl as
.Op Ar command
.Ar ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm Which
takes a list of command names and searches the path for each executable
file that would be run had these commands actually been invoked.
.Pp
The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl a
List all instances of executables found (instead of just the first one
of each).
.It Fl s
No output, just return 0 if any of the executables are found, or 1 if
none are found.
.El
.Pp
Some shells may provide a builtin
.Nm
command which is similar or identical to this utility.
Consult the
.Xr builtin 1
manual page.
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
command first appeared in
.Fx 2.1 .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr builtin 1 ,
.Xr csh 1 ,
.Xr find 1 ,
.Xr locate 1 ,
.Xr perl 1 ,
.Xr whereis 1
.Sh AUTHORS
The PERL script for this more modern version of
.Nm
was written by
.An Wolfram Schneider Aq wosch@FreeBSD.org .
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