Re: Portable equivalent of "type -p"?
[You (Jeff Sheinberg)]
>jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl writes:
> > Is there a portable (POSIX) way of determining which binary will be called
> > for a particular command?
>According to "Unix for the Impatient", 2nd Edition, by Abrahams and
>Larson, p. 128:
>
> An alternative to "which" is the POSIX command `command -v' (see
> Section 5.10.1)
Which doesn't work with 'ash', of course. 'ash' isn't really a very good /
bin/sh, if by /bin/sh we mean a POSIX 1003.2 compliant shell. I almost
think you'd do better with bash invoked as 'sh'. 'ksh' seems pretty POSIX
compliant too.
.....A. P. Harris...apharris@onShore.com...<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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