Re: which..
check out http://web.nmsu.edu/~emacha/debian.html
got the source code for which. Compiles fine under linux, and someone
could put it in debian-utils, or whatever...
(my $.02 worth, ;) )
-Frank
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote:
>
> On Thu, 16 May 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
>
> > I would say that Debian needs a FAQ for this, but after the new
> > release is out it'll be irrelevant. The upcoming 1.1 release has
> > which. It's just a bash shell script that calls bash's built in type
> > command:
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> > type -path $*
>
> I'm glad "which" is now included with Debian, but I think it would be
> better to use a real program (perhaps borrowed from Slackware) instead of
> the bash shell script. 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.
>
> Gerry
>
>
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