On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Sorry, no 'which' in BasicLinux.  

  Rats! 

> The following should work:
> -----------------------
> dir $(type -path which)
> -----------------------

  That just prints out my entire directory listing,
albeit formatted funny.

  Your turn to plead lack of caffeine.  ;-)
I think you meant
-------------------
dir $(type -path X)
-------------------

> Perhaps in the next version of BasicLinux I should alias
> 'type -path' to which?

  It is a standard command in most distributions,
not to mention being half as many keystrokes.  :-)
 
> Nope, not included.  However, if there were requests from 
> users for md5sum, I would put it in.

  It's certainly not one of the most commonly used
commands, but for those who suspect their downloads
might have gone awry, it's a lot quicker to md5sum 
than to download the whole thing again... and again.

 - Steve


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