Introduction
This repository will run the which command to display the path where the command’s executable file is located.
The commands you need to install
- None in paticular
Quickstart
Try running the which command to see the path
ubuntu
Output results
/usr/bin/ls
macos
MacPorts
Output results
/bin/ls
windows
WSL2
Output results
/usr/bin/ls
MSYS2 MINGW64
Output results
/usr/bin/ls
Procedure
ubuntu
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Advance confirmation
Enter the following command into the terminal and if command not found does not appear, it is OK.
preinstall
Please install the command that shows “command not found” in the terminal using the following command.
command
Executing the following command in the terminal should output a string similar to the following:
Detail
/usr/bin/ls
macos
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Advance confirmation
Enter the following command into the terminal and if command not found does not appear, it is OK.
*MacOS uses the MacPorts package manager to manage commands. If you haven’t installed it yet, please refer to the MacPorts installation instructions at the link below. Also, set an alias for the command so that you can call the command without conflicting with the existing environment. If you are using this blog for the first time, please refer to the following two articles to set up your environment.
preinstall
If the command not found appears in the terminal, install it using the following command and set an alias.
command
Executing the following command in the terminal should output a string similar to the following:
Detail
/bin/ls
windows
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Advance confirmation
Enter the following command into the prompt and if command not found does not appear, it’s OK.
WSL2
MSYS2 MINGW64
*Windows has been confirmed to work with WSL2 and MSYS2 MINGW64. Please install WSL2 if possible, and if you are unable to set it up, you can run it by installing MSYS2, but there may be some commands that can only be run in WSL2. Please refer to the following article for instructions on how to install WSL2 and MSYS2.
preinstall
If the command not found appears in the prompt, please install it using the following command.
WSL2
MSYS2 MINGW64
command
By executing the following command at the prompt, you should get the following output:
WSL2
Detail
/usr/bin/ls
MSYS2 MINGW64
Detail
/usr/bin/ls
Afterword
Returns the first matching path in the $PATH environment variable. If there are multiple commands with the same name in the path displayed by running the following command, you can change the command to be used by changing the order.
In the case of bash, if you place export PATH=”/bin:$PATH” at the end of the file in ~/.bash_profile, the file in /bin will be searched.