There is a command you can use to determine, once you have entered a command, in what directory it will choose to run it from by searching the PATH variable. What command is that?

Question

There is a command you can use to determine, once you have entered a command, in what directory it will choose to run it from by searching the PATH variable. What command is that?

Answer 1

The command is 'which'. Here's the description from the man page for which:

The which utility takes a list of command names and searches the path for each executable file that would be run had these commands actually been invoked.