Neither 'command -v scan' nor 'which scan' works for me. I want to name the script, from which I want to know where nmh's scan is located. "scan". I want to know its location so I can invoke it. Of course, I know its location today, /usr/local/nmh/bin/scan. But I would prefer something more robust. Again, I could search, $PATH for a component containing "/nmh.", but how do I know that in the future there won't be more than one such component, or that in the future there will be any such component? All that depends on how I will configure nmh in the future.
Ralph Corderoy <[email protected]> writes: >Hi Norm, > >> How, from a script, can I get the location of the nmh executables. > >Depends on the shell. Try > >$ command -v inc >/usr/bin/mh/inc >$ > >If there's a shell function called `inc' though then it may describe >that. > >> the location of the "user" executables, like scan. > >Why do you need to know? > >Cheers, Ralph. > >_______________________________________________ >Nmh-workers mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers Norman Shapiro _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
