On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 04:55:36PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Branden Robinson writes ("Re: Bug#218530: Suboptimal conditional rune for
> initscripts"):
> > Ah, I see the reason:
> ...
> > [127] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ % ash
> > $ type ls
> > ls is /bin/ls
>
> But you don't, because it has a nonzero exit status if the command is
> not found - and foundness is the only thing the maintscript is
> interested in.Ah, right. Well, then, type and which seem to be equivalent. "which" seems far more intiutitive to me, but then I grew up using TCSH and am accustomed to most shells having it as a built in. -- G. Branden Robinson | Never attribute to malice that Debian GNU/Linux | which can be adequately explained [EMAIL PROTECTED] | by stupidity. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Hanlon's Razor
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