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which is a utility that is used to find which executable (or alias or shell function) is executed when entered on the shell prompt. See documentation

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Type of Package

Binary package

Use as Dependency

Binary packages can be set as runtime or build time dependencies. See Defining your dependencies for more information.

To add core/which as a dependency, you can add one of the following to your plan file.

Buildtime Dependency

pkg_build_deps=(core/which)

Runtime dependency

pkg_deps=(core/which)

Use as Tool

Installation

To install this plan, you should run the following commands to first install, and then link the binaries this plan creates.

hab pkg install core/which --binlink

will add the following binary to the PATH:

For example:

$ hab pkg install core/which --binlink
» Installing core/which
☁ Determining latest version of core/which in the 'stable' channel
→ Found newer installed version (core/which/2.21/20200928133047) than remote version (core/which/2.21/20200403123400)
→ Using core/which/2.21/20200928133047
★ Install of core/which/2.21/20200928133047 complete with 0 new packages installed.
» Binlinking which from core/which/2.21/20200928133047 into /bin
★ Binlinked which from core/which/2.21/20200928133047 to /bin/which

Using an example binary

You can now use the binary as normal. For example:

/bin/which --help or which --help

$ which --help
Usage: which [options] [--] COMMAND [...]
Write the full path of COMMAND(s) to standard output.

  --version, -[vV] Print version and exit successfully.
  --help,          Print this help and exit successfully.
  --skip-dot       Skip directories in PATH that start with a dot.
  --skip-tilde     Skip directories in PATH that start with a tilde.
  --show-dot       Don't expand a dot to current directory in output.
  --show-tilde     Output a tilde for HOME directory for non-root.
  --tty-only       Stop processing options on the right if not on tty.
  --all, -a        Print all matches in PATH, not just the first
  --read-alias, -i Read list of aliases from stdin.
  --skip-alias     Ignore option --read-alias; don't read stdin.
  --read-functions Read shell functions from stdin.
  --skip-functions Ignore option --read-functions; don't read stdin.
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