Path Program

Vallury Prabhakar rustcat at csli.Stanford.EDU
Sat Jun 17 08:45:34 AEST 1989


In article <702 at censor.UUCP> markk at censor.UUCP (Mark Keating) writes:
% 
% path \- locate the executable for a command

[...]

% will report on the location of
% .I file,
% searching every directory in the path (as defined in the
% $PATH variable), much like the operating system does when searching
% $PATH to execute a program.  It is handy for finding out where in your path
% a command resides. 

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Is this in any way better or different from the `which' command on BSD 
systems?  Just curious. 



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