From Scanty Octupus, 9 Months ago, written in Plain Text.
How does "which" work? given...
==> ls -l ~/.npm-global/bin/npm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 me me 38 Mar 16 19:04 /home/me/.npm-global/bin/npm -> ../lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js*
and...
==> npm -v
4.4.1
should "which npm" be blank?
==> which npm
==> echo $PATH
~/.npm-global/bin:/home/me/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/db/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/bin
==> alias npm
bash: alias: npm: not found
==> mv ~/.npm-global/bin/npm ~/.npm-global/bin/npm.bak
'/home/me/.npm-global/bin/npm' -> '/home/me/.npm-global/bin/npm.bak'
==> npm.bak -v
4.4.1
==> which npm.bak
{"html5":"htmlmixed","css":"css","javascript":"javascript","php":"php","python":"python","ruby":"ruby","lua":"text\/x-lua","bash":"text\/x-sh","go":"go","c":"text\/x-csrc","cpp":"text\/x-c++src","diff":"diff","latex":"stex","sql":"sql","xml":"xml","apl":"apl","asterisk":"asterisk","c_loadrunner":"text\/x-csrc","c_mac":"text\/x-csrc","coffeescript":"text\/x-coffeescript","csharp":"text\/x-csharp","d":"d","ecmascript":"javascript","erlang":"erlang","groovy":"text\/x-groovy","haskell":"text\/x-haskell","haxe":"text\/x-haxe","html4strict":"htmlmixed","java":"text\/x-java","java5":"text\/x-java","jquery":"javascript","mirc":"mirc","mysql":"sql","ocaml":"text\/x-ocaml","pascal":"text\/x-pascal","perl":"perl","perl6":"perl","plsql":"sql","properties":"text\/x-properties","q":"text\/x-q","scala":"scala","scheme":"text\/x-scheme","tcl":"text\/x-tcl","vb":"text\/x-vb","verilog":"text\/x-verilog","yaml":"text\/x-yaml","z80":"text\/x-z80"}