Re: Geting program path

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From: John Hobson
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 18:15

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fxfjn@camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu (Frankie J. Nichols) wrote:
>try 'which' then the command (executable) you need the path of
>
>   -frankie
>
>
>Highlander C H B M (l39801@ci.ist.utl.pt) wrote:
>
>: I need to find the path of the executable so I can stat() and touch it.
>: Anybody knows how to do it ? ( geting the $PWD or getcwd() doesn't help 
>: cause it can be anywhere along the $PATH )

'which' is the C-shell (boo, hiss) version. In Korn shell (huzza!), try
'whence'.

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