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30.\" $Id$
31.Dd January 26, 1995
32.Dt WHICH 1
33.Os FreeBSD
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm which
36.Nd "locate a program file in the user's path"
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.Nm which
39.Op Fl as
40.Op Ar command
41.Ar ...
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43.Nm Which
44takes a list of command names and searches the path for each executable
45file that would be run had these commands actually been invoked.
46.Pp
47The following options are available:
48.Bl -tag -width indent
49.It Fl a
50List all instances of executables found (instead of just the first one
51of each).
52.It Fl s
53No output, just return 0 if any of the executables are found, or 1 if
54none are found.
55.Sh HISTORY
56The
57.Nm
58command first appeared in
59.Fx 2.1 .
60.Sh SEE ALSO
61.Xr perl 1
62.Sh AUTHOR
63The PERL script for this more modern version of
64.Nm which
65was written by Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>.
66