It probably depends on your shell. But most shells should have the "which" builtin
$ which scan /usr/local/nmh/bin/scan If you want to be super portable, there's probably a way to separate the PATH variable using : as your delimeter and check echo entry for $dir/scan ... but I can't get the splitting-up part to happen off the top of my head. --hymie! http://lactose.homelinux.net/~hymie [email protected] [email protected] writes: >How, from a script, can I get the location of the nmh executables. I don't >mean the location of the "fancy" executables that `mhparam libexecdir` >gets me, but the location of the "user" executables, like scan. >Yes, I know, it will be in $PATH, but I want to make sure that I get >the right component of $PATH. > > Norman Shapiro _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
