Shell command for outputting absolute path of binary

command-line

Is there a shell command for outputing absolute path for specified program? I'd like to know where executable binary file is.


Solution 1:

Try which ls to discover full path to ls command

Solution 2:

The command

type name

will give you every information about name, if executable (returning also the path), shell alias, shell function, shell builtin.

Solution 3:

whereis -b yourBinary will output the location of a program.

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