LKBEN10989: Howto know which program will be executed by a command
Symptom
You need to know if a program exists and which one will be executed
Cause
none
Solution
To check if a certain program can be executed on your system you can use the "which" command.
$ which bash
/bin/bash
You can also use the -a parameter or switch. Then the programm will find all the possible matches for you automatically. To select the second one you need to use the ./ prefix. You can do this by:
./ThisProgram
Therefore you will have to stand in the right directory.
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Author: - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG
Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.