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		0xbadcafebee on Oct 28, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Debian's Which Hunt The POSIX shell builtin command -v <name> basically already functions like which, and the whole purpose of which is to tell you where in $PATH a command is

Pxtl on Oct 29, 2021 [–]

It doesn't function exactly like "which" because it's missing two key features: an intuitive name, and a million man-hours of experience being used.

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