Kurinchi Blogger Scribbles ... » which command http://kurinchilamp.kurinchilion.com On Open Source Technologies Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:14:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Linux: which vs. whereis command difference http://kurinchilamp.kurinchilion.com/2009/08/linux-which-vs-whereis-command-difference.html http://kurinchilamp.kurinchilion.com/2009/08/linux-which-vs-whereis-command-difference.html#comments Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:45:15 +0000 kurinchilamp http://kurinchilamp.kurinchilion.com/?p=663 Difference between which command and whereis command in Linux

For e.g. lets find where “samba” is located in a CentOS server

$ which samba
which command searches the list of programs listed down through the PATH settings

$ whereis samba
whereis command also searches for programs that are not present in the PATH setting

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