How To Find SVN on my Mac

I'm very wet behind the ears on my Mac as I'm a windows developer.

I'm trying to find out if I have SVN installed and where it is but I cannot even figure out this basic task.

I've got a terminal window open (is this using bash?) and according to things I've read it could be in /usr/local/bin but I cannot even seem to get the terminal app to change to this directory.

Can I view any of this with finder as I cannot seem to even locate it using Finder.

I feel extremely dumb right now.

2 Answers

Most probably you won't have SVN installed by default. But you can check by running this in your terminal:

$ whereis svn

Generally speaking you can do that for any executable

$ whereis cat
cat: /bin/cat /usr/share/man/man1/cat.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1p/cat.1p.gz

When not installed:

 $ whereis nothing nothing:

Command for terminal (do not enter $-symbol):

$ which svn

For me the path to shortcut of SVN was at /usr/local/bin. When I right clicked to show the original path I found my SVN executable at /usr/local/Cellar/subversion/1.14.1/bin/svn

macOS Big Sur