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. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz