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At 16:39 5/10/98 PDT, you wrote:
>You can use 'whereis' on solaris...basically the same thing.
>
>regards,
>kevin
>
 Another handy command is "which". - usefull if you have a very long PATH,
or if you are using different copies of the same program.

e.g:
which pwd
/usr/bin/pwd


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