On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:46:16 +0100, Justin B Rye wrote: > The only shell I know of with a "which" builtin is zsh, but if that's > missing Perl would be perfectly capable of using /usr/bin/which > (provided by the Essential package debianutils). [..] > So it's a safety-net to ensure the availability of a command that on > Debian is guaranteed to be available anyway? No, AIUI it's the possibility to get a which-like functionality from within perl without having to call external tools. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key ID: 0x8649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Bob Dylan: Sad eyed lady of the lowlands
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