which (UCB)—locates a command and displays its pathname or alias

which [ filename ]

which takes a list of names and looks for the files that would be executed had the names been given as commands. Each argument is expanded if it is aliased, and searched for along the user's path. Both aliases and path are taken from the user's .cshrc file. Only .cshrc file is used.

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