oh thank you. It's that in my system type cpanm's output is verbose and breaks the above command with this output: cpanm is /usr/local/bin/cpanm . and which doesn't. But this works (only if path does not contain spaces): head -n 1 "$( type cpanm | awk '{print $NF}')"

It looks type has been buried under the weight of its success. Next step: unicode quotes and ellipses.

It looks type has been buried under the weight of its success

Ha ha! It's been twenty years since I looked at this in any detail, just kept on happily using the good ol' bald type command. I was surprised just now (and not in a good way) to learn of many more ways to do it:

• The Linux type command - which supports the -p option, as used by ikegami above.
• The POSIX type command - which does not support any options.
• The Unix which command.
• The KornShell whence command.
• The POSIX command command (sic) - not a fan of this command name. :)

I don't think this is an impressive application of TMTOWTDI. :)

Sorry, I meant type -p perl. Been a while.

Anyway, I asked for the perl used to installed the module, and you haven't provided. (Oops, forgot the leading "What", but you seem to understand it was a request)

Seeking work! You can reach me at ikegami@adaelis.com