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NAME
       whiff - like which, but finds the first of all the given alternatives


VERSION
       version 0.005


DESCRIPTION
       which is a useful utility, found on most unix systems.  It gives you the absolute path for the first
       occurance of a program in your path.  Unfortunately, it does two stupid things:  first, if it can't find
       one, it prints an error message to stdout; secondly, if you give it multiple arguments, it assumes you
       want one line per argument, each like calling which individually.

       whiff assumes that all the arguments form a best-first list of alternatives, and only prints the path to
       the first alternative found in the path.  If none is found, it prints an error (to stderr!) and exits
       with an error code.


USAGE
        whiff <command ... >


AUTHOR
       Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@cpan.org>


       This software is copyright (c) 2008 by Ricardo SIGNES.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5
       programming language system itself.