Find the path of a shell command

[Michael F. Stemper]

On 12/10/2022 07.20, Chris Green wrote:
> jak <nospam at please.ty> wrote:
>> Il 12/10/2022 09:40, jkn ha scritto:
>>> On Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 6:12:23 AM UTC+1, jak wrote:

>>>> I'm afraid you will have to look for the command in every path listed in
>>>> the PATH environment variable.
>>>
>>> erm, or try 'which rm' ?
>>
>> You might but if you don't know where the 'rm' command is, you will have
>> the same difficulty in using 'which' command. Do not you think?
>  From a command prompt use the bash built-in 'command' :-
> 
>      command -v rm
> 
> ... and rm will just about always be in /usr/bin.

On two different versions of Ubuntu, it's in /bin.

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Michael F. Stemper
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