How to find the install path of git in Mac or Linux?

Execute in terminal

$ which git

that produces output

/usr/bin/git

on Linux. If you are looking for where is install directory on MAC and you installed git with brew then

brew info git

on Debian

dpkg -L git

For Linux we can use any of the following commands to find the location of GIT installation directory.

1. type git
2. which git
3. command -v git
4. whereis git

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