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- From: John Hobson <jhobson@ceco.ceco.com>
- Subject: Re: Geting program path
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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
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- >Highlander C H B M (l39801@ci.ist.utl.pt) wrote:
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- >: 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 )
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- 'which' is the C-shell (boo, hiss) version. In Korn shell (huzza!), try
- 'whence'.
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