Re: which vs. type, and recursion?

On 4/09/21 9:26 pm, Brian wrote: On Sat 04 Sep 2021 at 21:21:38 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: Greg Wooledge pointed out in another thread that 'type' is often better than 'which' for finding out what kind of command you're about to run, and where it comes from. A quick test, however, threw up

Re: which vs. type, and recursion?

On Sat 04 Sep 2021 at 21:21:38 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > Greg Wooledge pointed out in another thread that 'type' is often better than > 'which' for finding out what kind of command you're about to run, and where > it comes from. > > A quick test, however, threw up another issue: > >

Re: which vs. type, and recursion?

On 9/4/2021 11:21 AM, Richard Hector wrote: Greg Wooledge pointed out in another thread that 'type' is often better than 'which' for finding out what kind of command you're about to run, and where it comes from. A quick test, however, threw up another issue: richard@zircon:~$ type ls ls is

which vs. type, and recursion?

Greg Wooledge pointed out in another thread that 'type' is often better than 'which' for finding out what kind of command you're about to run, and where it comes from. A quick test, however, threw up another issue: richard@zircon:~$ type ls ls is aliased to `ls --color=auto' Great, so it's