In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gerry Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, 16 May 1996, Rob Browning wrote: > >> I would say that Debian needs a FAQ for this, but after the new >> release is out it'll be irrelevant. The upcoming 1.1 release has >> which. It's just a bash shell script that calls bash's built in type >> command: >> >> #!/bin/bash >> type -path $* > >I'm glad "which" is now included with Debian, but I think it would be >better to use a real program (perhaps borrowed from Slackware) instead of >the bash shell script. A problem with the bash script is that it doesn't >handle shell builtins like one would expect "which" would. For example: > >which test > >returns nothing. While which should return /usr/bin/test on a Debian >system.
This can easily be fixed by using "-all". #!/bin/bash type -path -all $* That will print the location of test. I am on my home system now, it isn't very up-to-date and so doesn't have "which" yet. This means I cannot file a bug report since I don't know which package it is part of.. Mike. -- + Miquel van Smoorenburg + Cistron Internet Services + Living is a | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SP6) | Independent Dutch ISP | horizontal | + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.cistron.nl/ + fall +
