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You have to know where the command is. On some systems, the division between /bin and /usr/bin is arbitrary.

Keith Thompson
– Keith Thompson

2012-05-25 20:50:13 +00:00
Commented May 25, 2012 at 20:50
@KeithThompson For that, you could use which for some commands: which ls.

cst1992
– cst1992

2016-04-19 11:44:10 +00:00
Commented Apr 19, 2016 at 11:44
@cst1992: If you're going to use which (or type), it does a lookup via $PATH; you might as well just use ls or \ls rather than specifying the path.

Keith Thompson
– Keith Thompson

2016-04-19 15:10:43 +00:00
Commented Apr 19, 2016 at 15:10
@cst1992 I know the OP is about Bash, but on zsh, both which and command -v or its human-readable command -V return the alias versions. Using \ls just works, but to get its real path I can only seem to think of echo "$PATH" | tr ':' '\n' | xargs -I{} find {} -maxdepth 1 -name 'ls' -type f 2>/dev/null | head -n1... which works.

mazunki
– mazunki

2022-02-27 01:36:29 +00:00
Commented Feb 27, 2022 at 1:36

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