playframework - Setting an environment variable for play framework

Question

I have installed play framework on Ubuntu 12.4 and I want to be able to just call play from terminal without specifying it's full path. I've tried exporting the path and so on, but it does not work because for some reason, another application called play starts instead. Problem is I cannot find that application's path in the paths file. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

To find the thing that is in your path named play run:

which play