Find the path of a shell command

[Paulo da Silva]

Às 05:00 de 12/10/22, Paulo da Silva escreveu:
> 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?
> 
Thank you all who have responded so far.
I think that the the suggestion of searching the PATH env seems the best.
Another thing that I thought of is that of the 'which', but, to avoid 
the mentioned recurrent problem of not knowing where 'which' is I would 
use 'type' instead. 'type' is a bash (sh?) command.

Thanks
Paulo