Thnx @saifi. I will practice on them. Wished to mention.. Warm Regards, Deepak
On Sat, 14 Aug 2021 at 19:46, SAIFI <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 8 Aug 2021, Deepak Kumar wrote: > > > > > What is difference among 'which' 'Whereis' N 'find' commands? > > > > instead of using 'whereis' by itself, try to use it with '-l' option > > whereis -l signal.h > whereis -l ls > whereis -l whereis > > this has great educational value. > > 'which' on the other hand can locate only executables which show up in > PATH environment variable. > > as to find. > > find is a fully generic search utility for all types of device files. > > find is a proper superset of 'which', 'whereis' > > find becomes a 'which' when files are searched with -exec, -execdir > options. > > find is a multi-faceted utility and one can make power use of it together > with xargs while discounting the shell. > > > warm regards > Saifi. > >
