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Date:      13 Sep 2004 22:54:26 -0400
From:      Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com>
To:        robg <robg.list@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: showing which path a user program runs from?
Message-ID:  <1095130466.757.49.camel@chaucer>
In-Reply-To: <5c389d3b04091319371aef7e73@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <5c389d3b04091319371aef7e73@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 22:37, robg wrote:
> hi, say im the user 'rob' and i have the same program in two seperate
> folders in my /home dir and run both.. if i run ps it shows me im
> running both, but how can i find out which location folder is running
> which program shown in ps

The "which" command will tell you the fully-qualified path name of any
executable that can be found in the $PATH variable.  It will search in
order of the directories in the path.

So, if your program is "myprog", run the command "which myprog".




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