Whereis path

[Elias Pipping]

you should use 'which' instead of 'whereis'. 'whereis' doesn't  
search /opt/local, by default, even if it's in your PATH. 'which'  
does, though.

you might also want to use 'type', if you're running bash. 'type' has  
the comfort of offering a '-a' for "all" parameter (see below.

   $whereis bash
   /bin/bash

   $which bash
   /opt/local/bin/bash

   $type bash
   bash is /opt/local/bin/bash
   $type -a bash
   bash is /opt/local/bin/bash
   bash is /bin/bash


Regards,

Elias Pipping

On Apr 6, 2007, at 2:20 AM, Alex Kac wrote:

> Of course, when I do a "whereis" it gives me stuff in /usr/bin. How  
> do I get whereis to show me the path in /opt/local?
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