Re: odd search order looking for perl?

[Pete Forman]

Francesco Potorti` writes:
 > > I was afraid that this which-like command might be known by
 > > various names on various systems, and the output might vary.
 > 
 > I tried this, and I think it should work on any bourne shell:

Yes but not for any tr.  Try this change

 > echo $PATH |
 >  tr : \\n |

    tr : \\012 |

 >  while read dir;
 >  do if [ -x $dir/perl ];
 >  then echo $dir/perl; break;
 >  fi; done

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