[GRASS-user] locating GRASS installation directories on different operating systems

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Tyler Smith <tyler at plantarum.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015, at 06:57 AM, Markus Neteler wrote:
> Marvelous, thanks! To confirm, given the path returned by grass70
> --config, can I count on the helper programs being under <path>/bin and
> <path>/scripts, and the html docs will be under <path>/docs/html? That's
> much easier than looking for all three locations.

Mostly yes but it may be that some (Linux) distros put the documentation under

/usr/share/man/man1/

> What about the grass binary itself? Is there a way for GRASS to tell me
> that too, or is there a Windows version of `which`?

For Windows, I see some options discussed here (and elsewhere):

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/304319/is-there-an-equivalent-of-which-on-the-windows-command-line


Best
Markus