Re: command -v in postinsts violating policy
On Mon, 27 May 2002 10:03:26 +0200
Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis <luca@linuxasylum.net> wrote:
> We can send a wishlist bug to debianutils to add a flag to which in
> order to be quiet: -q|--quiet?
But now you have disabled the entire functionality of which, and that is
to send to stdout the first found in $PATH, full path to the specified
executable.
`which` does not itself execute commands; it finds them by searching the
$PATH and then echoes them.
If you make it quiet, it will be about as useful as
echo "" > /dev/null
(man which will be useful to verify this, altho it's not all that
specific: in that context, "returns" is really "streams to stdout,"
and -not- "returned as exit status," which wouldn't make sense for a
string anyway. Know your commands... it's useful when you're posting
about them :)
> ciao,
> --
> Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
-Jim
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