Published Sep 16 2020
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Suppose you have a command you can execute, because itโs in the shell path, but you want to know where it is located.
You can do so using which
. The command will return the path to the command specified:
which
will only work for executables stored on disk, not aliases or built-in shell functions.
The
which
command works on Linux, macOS, WSL, and anywhere you have a UNIX environment