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38 .Nd "locate a program file in the users $PATH environment variable"
46 takes a list of names and looks for the files which would be
47 executed had these names been given as commands.
48 Each argument is searched for along the user's
55 will continue to search the
57 until all instances of a program file are found.
64 This implementation does not expand
66 aliases, and is shell agnostic.
67 This is really a feature.