In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gerry Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 16 May 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
>
> > I would say that Debian needs a FAQ for this, but after the new
> > release is out it'll be irrelevant. The upcoming 1.1 release has
> > which. It's just a bash shell script that calls bash's built in type
> > command:
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> > type -path $*
>
> I'm glad "which" is now included with Debian, but I think it would be
> better to use a real program (perhaps borrowed from Slackware) instead of
> the bash shell script. A problem with the bash script is that it doesn't
> handle shell builtins like one would expect "which" would. For example:
>
> which test
>
> returns nothing. While which should return /usr/bin/test on a Debian
> system.
Agree.
A BSD-compatible public domain implementation of which is available at
alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu:/friedman/scripts/which . It is a 428 byte shell
script.
Please use this one.
Sven
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