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Booley
Booley

Reputation: 859

Find out where bash command definition is stored?

I used make/cmake for a project a while ago to build a command line tool, and I thought the binary was only executable while in that directory, but I just found out I'm able to call the command from any directory. This is troublesome because I'm having trouble building a newer project and I suspect this is related.

For example, I can run the command caffe train from a specific folder where I built the binary, but it turns out I can run caffe train from any folder, which I shouldn't be able to do. I could delete the binary, but the problem is that the command for it is stored and being called from somewhere, but I don't know where.

How can I find out where the definition for this command is stored? I examined my .bash_profile and looked at all the paths it listed, but I'm not seeing a relevant one. Is there another place I ought to be looking to find where command line tools are installed?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3216

Answers (1)

Booley
Booley

Reputation: 859

Ah sorry I just found out: Using type command gives where it is stored. Apparently whereis command should also do the same thing, though it gives me no output; for anyone else who has this problem, trying both would be good!

Upvotes: 3

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