Re: Bug#478850: posh: $ENV variable processed by non-interactive shells
2008-05-01 14:47:54 +0100, Clint Adams:
> On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 02:33:04PM +0100, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> > I don't really care about the "interactive" side of things
> > ($ENV, $PSx, job control), but I tend to consider that for the
> > scripting side of things, the optional features should be
> > implemented. For instance, if you don't have command -v, there's
> > no other reliable way to find out whether a command exists or
> > not. So you have to have something (either "command -v" or
> > "type").
>
> If policy wants to mandate either "command -v" or "type", we could
> conceivably move toward dropping "which" from debianutils.
I certainly have nothing against that :). "which" is a
non-standard, non-portable command, it can't be used reliably in
portable scripts anyway. On many unices, it's a csh script
intended for csh users (read their ~/.cshrc to find out about
aliases for instance). Only a built-in can return reliable
information on which command the shell would run.
"type" has been in the Bourne shell since SVR2 and is in every
POSIX shell I know of but posh. I don't know of a modern system
where "command -p sh -c 'command -v sh'" doesn't work either
(which doesn't mean it doesn't exist, I'm mostly familiar with
Linux, HPUX and Solaris)).
regards,
Stephane
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