Bug#218530: 'type' and 'command -v' don't work on posh

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 03:48:19PM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote:
> 'type' and 'command -v' don't work on posh.
> 
> The which command works, of course, but it is in /usr/bin/.
> 
> $ cd /
> jdthood@thanatos:/$ posh
> $ type ls
> posh: type: not found
> $ command ls
> bin   dev      etc   initrd  lost+found  mntcdrom  proc  sbin   sys  usr
> boot  dev.tar  home  lib     mnt         opt       root  share  tmp  var
> $ command -v ls
> command: invalid option -- v

FWIW, checking the program is in the path is not sufficient you need to check
it is executable:

bash-2.05a$ which foo
/usr/local/bin/foo
bash-2.05a$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/foo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     staff           0 Jun 10 01:46 /usr/local/bin/foo

(command -v and type -p has the same problem.)

so it should be:
if [ -x `which foo` ] ;  then
fi

Anyway, look at debhelper-generated maintainer scripts for example.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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