Re: No 'which' program?

["brian (b.c.) white" <bcwhite@bnr.ca>]

>Both tcsh and bash supply their own 'which' built-in commands, bash's is
>just called type. alias which to 'type -p' if you want it to act exactly
>like which.
>
>I wonder how many other people will answer this this time :)
>
>Is this in the Debian FAQ now?

Can't one of the base packages just include a tiny sh script that does
this?  I know it's built-in to all our shells in one form or another,
but this keeps coming up again and again and again.

                                        Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@bnr.ca )

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