Re: "what" command under Debian
Em Sáb, 2006-10-14 às 18:55 +0200, Jochen Schulz escreveu:
> Marcello Di Marino Azevedo:
> >
> > Anybody knows if we have something like "what" command under Debian as
> > under HP-UX?
>
> It would be easier to answer your question if you had told us what
> "what" does on HP-UX. Unfortunately I don't have this OS at home. ;-)
>
> But maybe "which", "whatis" or "apropos" do what you expcet.
>
> J.
Take a look:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.cmds/doc/aixcmds6/what.htm
What command is not like whatis or whereis, nor even closer.
Under HP-UX I use it many times to catch some info about binaries, that
info you can write yourself on the binary during compilation process.
Then, using what command you can retrieve that info using it.
For example you can add info about who compiled, for which build number
and on what box. Very clever when you have an application with many
files and want know from where each one of them came from.
Marcello.
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