Find the path of a shell command

[jak]

Il 12/10/2022 06:00, Paulo da Silva ha scritto:
> Hi!
> 
> The simple question: How do I find the full path of a shell command 
> (linux), i.e. how do I obtain the corresponding of, for example,
> "type rm" in command line?
> 
> The reason:
> I have python program that launches a detached rm. It works pretty well 
> until it is invoked by cron! I suspect that for cron we need to specify 
> the full path.
> Of course I can hardcode /usr/bin/rm. But, is rm always in /usr/bin? 
> What about other commands?
> 
> Thanks for any comments/responses.
> Paulo
> 

I'm afraid you will have to look for the command in every path listed in
the PATH environment variable.