Re: The "which -s" flag

2020-08-31 Thread Philipp Kern
On 31.08.20 22:19, Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY wrote: > Simon McVittie writes: > >> which(1) is non-standardized, which is likely to be part of the reason >> why Debian has its own implementation not shared with other Linux >> distributions. Some other Linux distributions, for example Fedora and >>

Re: The "which -s" flag

2020-08-31 Thread Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY
Simon McVittie writes: > which(1) is non-standardized, which is likely to be part of the reason > why Debian has its own implementation not shared with other Linux > distributions. Some other Linux distributions, for example Fedora and > Arch Linux, use GNU Which

Re: The "which -s" flag

2020-08-19 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 01:45:05PM +, Clint Adams wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 10:55:41AM -0400, Boyuan Yang wrote: > > In theory any Debian Developers may merge, but the debianutils package is > > maintained by clint@ and srivasta@ so they are responsible for this > > package. I > > am

Re: The "which -s" flag

2020-08-19 Thread Clint Adams
On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 10:55:41AM -0400, Boyuan Yang wrote: > In theory any Debian Developers may merge, but the debianutils package is > maintained by clint@ and srivasta@ so they are responsible for this package. I > am adding them to the email receiver list explicitly. Now that `command -v`

Re: The "which -s" flag

2020-08-18 Thread Boyuan Yang
Hi, 在 2020-08-17星期一的 20:47 +0200,Erik Gustafsson写道: > I took Teemus very good suggestion and changed [-a] to [-as] now :) > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debianutils/-/merge_requests/6/diffs#ed04ff4dabf1e2d4cd6b89136c2b24dec27ecca4_21_24 > > Is there anything more I should change? > > Who

Re: The "which -s" flag

2020-08-17 Thread Erik Gustafsson
I understand that if I write my own shell scripts I maybe should use command -v instead, but this is not for my own shell scripts, but for compatibility with BSD and Mac. Den mån 17 aug. 2020 kl 20:47 skrev Erik Gustafsson < ekir.gustafs...@gmail.com>: > I took Teemus very good suggestion and

Re: The "which -s" flag

2020-08-17 Thread Erik Gustafsson
I took Teemus very good suggestion and changed [-a] to [-as] now :) https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debianutils/-/merge_requests/6/diffs#ed04ff4dabf1e2d4cd6b89136c2b24dec27ecca4_21_24 Is there anything more I should change? Who can merge? :) Den fre 14 aug. 2020 kl 16:07 skrev Simon McVittie :

Re: The "which -s" flag

2020-08-14 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 at 14:46:39 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Regardless of the -s option, why is command preferred over which? Due > to it being POSIX or for some other reason? * command is POSIX, so any Unixish environment should have it, whereas which is non-standard, so it's anyone's

Re: The "which -s" flag

2020-08-14 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 02:46:39PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Regardless of the -s option, why is command preferred over which? Due > to it being POSIX or for some other reason? developers-reference (11.0.7) unstable; urgency=medium * best-pkging-practices: recommend "command -v"

Re: The "which -s" flag

2020-08-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Simon McVittie (2020-08-14 14:29:15) > Another angle you could attack this from is to change these scripts to > use "which java >/dev/null" or, better, "command -v java >/dev/null" > instead of "which -s java". > > which(1) is non-standardized, which is likely to be part of the reason

Re: The "which -s" flag

2020-08-14 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 at 00:55:03 +0200, Erik Gustafsson wrote: > This "which" is heavily used at the company where I work, for java > development etc like > which -s java || echo "You have to install java to run this program" Another angle you could attack this from is to change these scripts to

Re: The "which -s" flag

2020-08-14 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi, Teemu Likonen writes: > * 2020-08-14 00:55:03+02, Erik Gustafsson wrote: > >> To make my Debian installation compatible with "which -s" I have made a >> merge request for this >> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debianutils/-/merge_requests/6/diffs > > Reviewed-by: me, a random debian user.

Re: The "which -s" flag

2020-08-13 Thread Geert Stappers
On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 12:55:03AM +0200, Erik Gustafsson wrote: > Hi! > > The "which" command is part of debianutils. On BSD and Mac, this command on > Mac/BSD has a -s flag, for silent, when used it does not print, just return > 0 if program found in $PATH or 1 otherwise. See man-page for

Re: The "which -s" flag

2020-08-13 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2020-08-14 00:55:03+02, Erik Gustafsson wrote: > To make my Debian installation compatible with "which -s" I have made a > merge request for this > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debianutils/-/merge_requests/6/diffs Reviewed-by: me, a random debian user. But perhaps you should mention the