Tldr: page request: where

[ahmetb]

[sbrl]

Thanks for requesting this page! Do you want to have a go yourself, @ahmetb?

Pages are best created by people who understand the command they are about.

If you do, take a quick read of CONTRIBUTING.md, which guides you through the process of creating a new page here. Then, just simply send a pull request to this repository - and if you need any assistance, just ask :-)

[ahmetb]

I wish I understood this command well enough to write about it but I currently do not.

[u32i64]

I can neither find where in man nor in the web.
Did you mean the whereis command? If so, I did submit a pull request for it: #1708.

[ahmetb]

Try it on your bash. There might not be a manpage for it, but it’s a command.

[u32i64]

[ahmetb]

Hmm it works in my macOS + bash/zsh, I use it all the time. man where brings up BSD General Commands Manual.

$ where git
git: aliased to hub
/Users/ahmetb/.homebrew/bin/git
/usr/bin/git

[u32i64]

Looks like this command is simillar to whereis in linux:

[av@av-pc ~]$ whereis git
git: /usr/bin/git /usr/share/man/man1/git.1.gz

But I think there is some difference, so we need two separate _tldr_'s:

• osx/where.md.
• linux/whereis.md (#1708).

[agnivade]

Yes, we need 2 separate pages in that case.

[fangyi-zhou]

where is a csh built in, but it seems zsh has it as well

man 1 csh shows tcsh manual, which contains following

       where command (+)
               Reports  all  known  instances  of command, including aliases, builtins and
               executables in path.

[fangyi-zhou]

Note that where is not available in bash
Previous commands seem to suggest this is an osx thing, I believe that is incorrect.

[fangyi-zhou]

Also notice the difference between where and whereis and which

(platform: osx)

[fangyi-zhou]

@agnivade Please read.