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From: Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "command -v" prints pathnames of non-executable files
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Please consider the following sequence of commands which illustrates
that "command -v foo" prints the name of the first executable file "foo"
it finds on the PATH, failing which it prints the first non-executable
file "foo" it finds on the PATH.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $PATH
/home/jdthood/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which foo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ command -v foo
bash: command: foo: not found
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ touch /home/jdthood/bin/foo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /home/jdthood/bin/foo
-rw-r--r-- 1 jdthood jdthood 0 2005-01-18 10:40 /home/jdthood/bin/foo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which foo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ command -v foo
/home/jdthood/bin/foo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo touch /usr/local/bin/foo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which foo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ command -v foo
/home/jdthood/bin/foo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/foo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 0 2005-01-18 10:41 /usr/local/bin/foo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo chmod ugo+x /usr/local/bin/foo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/foo
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 0 2005-01-18 10:41 /usr/local/bin/foo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which foo
/usr/local/bin/foo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ command -v foo
/usr/local/bin/foo
Because of this behavior, "command -v foo" alone cannot be used to tell
whether or not there is an executable program named 'foo' on the PATH.
One has to do something like this to work around the problem:
if CMD="$(command -v foo 2>/dev/null)" && [ -x "$CMD" ] ; then
...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
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Versions of packages bash depends on:
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Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 13:09:49 +0200
To: Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Bug#291197: "command -v" prints pathnames of non-executable files
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bug submitter writes:
> OK, I guess this can be closed or tagged wontfix then.
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