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You may also want 'whereis' instead of 'which'. I use cope to colorize my output, which makes 'which' useless to me for most common commands, but 'whereis' sti

• 8_hours_ago 8y ago
  > whereis Thanks for this! After 14+ years of using Linux almost daily, I had never heard of this command. I learned something new today, so now it's time to go home!
  • ssebastianj 8y ago
    Yeah, I recently "discovered" the commands 'whatis' [0] and 'apropos' [1] and my experience learning Linux improved quite a bit. [0] https://linux.die.net/man/1/whatis https://linux.die.net/man/1/whatis [1] https://linux.die.net/man/1/apropos https://linux.die.net/man/1/apropos
    • cjcampbell 8y ago
      Thanks for passing those on as well!
• twic 8y ago
  In bash, there's also: command -V Which knows about aliases and functions as well: $ command -V ip ip is /sbin/ip $ command -V ll ll is aliased to `ls -AlF --color=auto' $ command -V command_not_found_handle command_not_found_handle is a function command_not_found_handle () { if [ -x /usr/lib/command-not-found ]; then /usr/lib/command-not-found -- "$1"; return $?; else if [ -x /usr/share/command-not-found/command-not-found ]; then /usr/share/command-not-found/command-not-found -- "$1"; return $?; else printf "%s: command not found\n" "$1" 1>&2; return 127; fi; fi }