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Jan 182009
 

How to find where a command is stored in Linux

Answer:

To find out where a command is stored in Linux, you can use the which command to locate the command

# which wget
/usr/bin/wget

or use whereis command to locate the binary/source/manual

# whereis wget
wget: /usr/bin/wget /usr/share/man/man1/wget.1.gz

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