On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 12:55:03AM +0200, Erik Gustafsson wrote: > Hi! > > The "which" command is part of debianutils. On BSD and Mac, this command on > Mac/BSD has a -s flag, for silent, when used it does not print, just return > 0 if program found in $PATH or 1 otherwise. See man-page for FreeBSD > https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?which(1) > > This "which" is heavily used at the company where I work, for java > development etc like > which -s java || echo "You have to install java to run this program" > > We have many shellscripts using this, but unfortunately they don't > work on GNU/Linux, only on Mac and BSD. > > The current version of "which" supplied with Debian is written in > shellscript > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debianutils/blob/master/which > > To make my Debian installation compatible with "which -s" I have made a > merge request for this > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debianutils/-/merge_requests/6/diffs Looks good to me (and also told that to Salsa) > How to proceed to get the Merge request reviewed? You are taking the right approach: Just do Now comes a challenging part: Give time to others to respond > I have never contributed to Debian before, but I am happy to do it :) Nice, you started > Best regards, > -Erik Regards Geert Stappers DD P.S. Welcome -- Silence is hard to parse
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