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Re: Portable equivalent of "type -p"?



Adam P. Harris wrote:
> 
> I was simply pointing out that this recommendation in policy is not to be
> taken too literally, and in fact 'ash' isn't very POSIXly correct after
> all.  Some developers---not you, clearly---might say "well, 'command -v'
> doesn't work in ash, it must be non-POSIX.

But by the same token bash isn't POSIX compliant either (see bug #17533)
:)

Seriously I'll make sure that command -v works in the next release.
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