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Assignment 1
Write a shell script to locate executable files. This script takes a list of file names from the command line
and determines which would be executed had these names been given as commands.
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Please refer the Syllabus for the Assigment / Project Requirements and Guidelines
The search path should be based only on the user's PATH environment variable. You shall not use the
Unix which command, the ksh whence (type) command, the locate command, or the bash type command.
The code for the script shall not use the UNIX ls command to determine if the file is executable or if it
exists.
The script should find only the first occurrence of the "file". If the file is not found, the script the following
 NOT FOUND
 would be replaced by the name of the "file" you didn't find.
If the first parameter is '-a', then the script should print all occurrences of the executable file in the user's
path. Again, if the file was not on the path, an error message should be displayed.
The find command shall not be used.
A project using temporary files will not be graded.
NOTE: The shell variable PATH defines the search path for the directory containing the command.
Alternative directory names are separated by a colon (:). The current directory can be specified by two or
more adjacent colons, or by a colon at the beginning or end of the path list.
If the command name contains a / then the search path is not used, you just check if the command/file
specified is executable and not a directory. Otherwise, each directory in the path is searched for an
executable file.

usage: mywhich [-a] command ....
Examples: The locations of these programs may vary on different systems depending on the system and
the value of the PATH environment variable.
prompt> mywhich ls
/bin/ls
prompt> mywhich -a cc
/bin/cc
/usr/ucb/cc
prompt> mywhich ./mywhich
./mywhich
prompt> mywhich /bin/ls
/bin/ls
prompt> mywhich fooblar
fooblar not found
prompt> mywhich ksh sh csh bash
/usr/bin/ksh
/bin/sh
/bin/csh
/usr/local/bin/bash

If you look at the other attached files in the programing assignments, the examples show what the PATH
environment variable was set to for the test case, the command that was run, the expected results and
the output of the program.

PATH ==> /usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/X11
RAN ==> mar1.sh -a tar
RESULT ==> PASSED
EXPECTED RESULT ==> /usr/bin/tar
PROGRAM OUTPUT ==> /usr/bin/tar

You script will should ONLY out put the results which would be the data after the ==> in the EXPECTED
RESULT section.
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