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Re: which..



In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.91.960516183748.15486B-100000@blue.intele.net> Gerry Jensen <gerry@blue.intele.net> writes:

> 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. 

Agree.

A BSD-compatible public domain implementation of which is available at
alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu:/friedman/scripts/which . It is a 428 byte shell
script.

Please use this one.

	Sven
-- 
Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de> ; WWW : http://www.sax.de/~sr1/


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