Hi all,

Just an idle curiosity for a Friday afternoon, but does anyone know
which verison of which is included in the debianutils package (in Ubuntu
Feisty), and why it is so woefully out of date?

For instance, on one of the FC4 boxes I have to look after, which is the
standalone package:

which-2.16-6

Which is itself somewhat elderly as even though it is still the current
version it was released back in 2003, but it is far more sophisticated
than the totally no frills version in debianutils.

The reason I ask is because I was banging my head against the wall
trying to remember what that command is that can expand aliases in
bashrc files, because, you see, what I was thinking of is the fact that
on other systems which is itself an alias:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:-$ which which
alias which='alias | /usr/bin/which --tty-only --read-alias --show-dot
--show-tilde'

So obviously, the answer to my earlier headbanging was in fact alias,
but the one I was actually thinking of was which, which means I don't
have to remember if a command is an alias or not in the first place.

Plus I wanted to see how many times I could write the word which in
seemingly odd places in one email whilst still being grammatically
correct throughout. Maybe I should just go to the pub instead ;-)

Thanks,
Craig
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