Sep 12, 2009 · How about learning about whereis and which using whatis? $ whatis which which (1) - shows the full path of (shell) commands $ whatis whereis whereis (1) - locate the binary, source, and …

Is there an equivalent of the Unix whereis command in Windows? So that I could figure out where commands I can run actually is.

What are the reasons why commands like whereis or which do not show me location of command? E.g. I have nvm and want to know where is it located, but none of these command help me to find the binary.

From which/whereis differences which (1) - shows the full path of (shell) commands whereis (1) - locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command I'd use which as it shows you where just …

Aug 3, 2011 · From the manual page for whereis: 'whereis - locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command'. Using whereis -m grep will restrict output just to the location of the manual page …

According to the Stack Overflow answer at Is there an equivalent of 'which' on windows?, where.exe does this on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2003 and later: Example C:\> where ping Output: …

Nov 12, 2013 · I can't seem to find anything about a Powershell equivalent of the where command from cmd. Should I just call it from cmd or is there something more elegant in PS?

$ touch /usr/share/foo $ whereis foo foo: /usr/share/foo What's the intention of that -- I don't know. But all in all I think whereis is a little bit outdated. To find executables the shell builtin where -a [command] is …

In the manpage of whereis, it clearly says (emphasis mine): The whereis utility checks the standard binary directories for the specified programs, printing out the paths of any it finds. The path searched …

Nov 14, 2011 · $ which java $ whereis java which will give you, most likely, the JRE path in /usr/bin folder such as /usr/bin/java. This is not the actual JRE file, but a symbolic link to the actual JRE file …