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                     35: .Dd April 23, 1991
                     36: .Dt WHICH 1
                     37: .Os BSD 3
                     38: .Sh NAME
                     39: .Nm which
                     40: .Nd "locate a program file including aliases and paths"
                     41: .Pq Xr csh 1
                     42: only)
                     43: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     44: .Nm which
                     45: .Op Ar name
                     46: .Ar ...
                     47: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     48: .Nm Which
                     49: takes a list of names and looks for the files which would be
                     50: executed had these names been given as commands.
                     51: Each argument is expanded if it is aliased,
                     52: and searched for along the user's path.
                     53: Both aliases and path are taken from the user's
                     54: .Pa \&.cshrc
                     55: file.
1.3     ! niklas     56: .Pp
        !            57: The
        !            58: .Nm which
        !            59: utility exits with one of the following values:
        !            60: .Bl -tag -width 4n
        !            61: .It 0
        !            62: All names got successfully resolved.
        !            63: .It 1
        !            64: Some names got resolved but not all.
        !            65: .It 2
        !            66: No names got resolved.
        !            67: .El
1.1       deraadt    68: .Sh FILES
                     69: .Bl -tag -width ~/\&.cshrc
                     70: .It Pa ~/\&.cshrc
                     71: source of aliases and path values
                     72: .El
                     73: .Sh DIAGNOSTICS
                     74: A diagnostic is given for names which are aliased to more than a single
                     75: word,
                     76: or if an executable file with the argument name was not found in the path.
                     77: .Sh BUGS
                     78: Must be executed by a
                     79: .Xr csh 1 ,
                     80: or some other shell which knows about aliases.
                     81: .Sh HISTORY
                     82: The
                     83: .Nm
                     84: command appeared in
                     85: .Bx 3.0 .