which

Which takes one or more arguments. For each of its arguments it prints to stdout the full path of the executables that would have been executed when this argument had been entered at the shell prompt. It does this by searching for an executable or script in the directories listed in the environment variable PATH using the same algorithm as bash.

Options:
* -all, -a: Print all matching executables in PATH, not just the first.
* -read-alias, -i: Read aliases from stdin, reporting matching ones on stdout. This is useful in combination with using an alias for which itself.
* -skip-alias: Ignore option `--read-alias', if any. This is useful to explicity search for normal binaries, while using the `--read-alias' option in an alias or function for which.
* -read-functions: Read shell function definitions from stdin, reporting matching ones on stdout. This is useful in combination with using a shell function for which itself.
* -skip-functions: Ignore option `--read-functions', if any. This is useful to explicity search for normal binaries, while using the `--read-functions' option in an alias or function for which.
*-skip-dot: Skip directories in PATH that start with a dot.
* -skip-tilde: Skip directories in PATH that start with a tilde and executables which reside in the HOME directory.
* -show-dot: If a directory in PATH starts with a dot and a matching executable was found for that path, then print "./programname" rather than the full path.
* -show-tilde: Output a tilde when a directory matches the HOME directory. This option is ignored when which is invoked as root.
* -tty-only: Stop processing options on the right if not on tty.
* -version,-v,-V: Print version information on standard output then exit successfully.
* -help: Print usage information on standard output then exit successfully.
Posted on May 31st, 2014

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