which: Get The Location of A Command
which | |
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| Category | Command Line Program |
| Part Of | GUN Core Utilities |
| Classification | Tier 1 |
| Official Documentation | GNU which |
1 Description
The which command will output the fully qualified path to the command.
2 Examples
2.1 Get Program Location
In the example below we use the which program to find out the location of the program systemctl.
user-1@vm:~$ which systemctl
/usr/bin/systemctl
user-1@vm:~$
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