Re: which..

[Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>]

On Thu, 16 May 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote:

> A problem with the bash script is that it doesn't 
> handle shell builtins like one would expect "which" would.  For example:
> 
> which test
> 
> returns nothing.  While which should return /usr/bin/test on a Debian 
> system. 

ok, the next version of debianutils will fix this problem with the
following New Improved Which.  Look For IT!!!!

#!/bin/bash
for i in $* ; do
type -all -path $i | head -1
done


Guy (Official Maintainer of the Debian which Program)