Siward de Groot wrote:
> which does not follow symlinks
True, it reports the symlink name rather than its target.
> it's manpage says that
> which returns the pathnames of the files which would be executed
The man page could be clarified by replacing the above with
which returns the pathnames of the files (or symbolic links) which would be
executed
> i would like to use something like 'dpkg -S `which xemacs`'
$ dpkg -S $(readlink -f $(which xemacs))
xemacs21-mule: /usr/bin/xemacs-21.4.16-mule
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