On 8/19/2016 11:12 AM, Dan Hyatt wrote:
In my bin directory, most of the binaries are linked to it. It is in my path. I have googled this and cannot find anything close.
I am running bash on centos6.8
When I run "which command" most of the files in this custom bin directory show up.
When I run "which file.jar" it cannot see it, but I can *ls* the file (soft link)
as which only works on executables (according to man page), I created a dan.jar empty file and did a which on dan.tar and found it.
can anyone explain what is happening and how I can soft link the jar files to my bin directory so which can see them?
`which` will only show files that have chmod +x set and are in the path.
jar files aren't directly executable by the shell, you have to run java -jar name.jar to execute them, so there's no point in having them in the path or +x.