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? Dan