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TIL the `which` command is one of those commands everyone (including me) thinks is standard simply because it's everywhere in the Unix & unixlike worlds, but which really isn't, & is nowhere in POSIX.

LWN, "Debian's which hunt," 2021-10-28: lwn.net/Articles/874049/

TIL the POSIX-conformant "which" is `command -v`: pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/

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