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From: digdon@Snoopy.UCIS.Dal.Ca (Mike Digdon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FBSD 2.0-950112: Missing "which"
Date: 27 Jan 1995 11:19:10 -0400
Organization: Warped Minds, Inc.
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I (digdon@Snoopy.UCIS.Dal.Ca) wrote:
: I tend to use the "which" command quite a lot. Before I had time to install
: bash (I just set up my machine), I had to use csh. "which" seems to be a csh
: built-in, so I was very surprised to find that "which" stopped working once
: I was running bash.
: On my SunOS system at work, "which" is found in /usr/ucb, and is not a
: built-in function. So, before I write my own verion of "which", is there
: some source for this floating around somewhere? I tried to find some in
: various places, but was unsuccessful.
After loads of responses, I got the information I was looking for.
Some people said to simply use the csh script. Others gave me little programs
to do it.
However, the one I went with was the bash built-in "type" command. I
aliased it to which and it does exactly the same thing the normal which
does, including finding aliases and bash builtins.
Thanx for all of the replies.
--
Mike Digdon # Network Operation Centre # Dalhousie University
Phone: +1 902 494-1873 # E-mail: digdon@snoopy.ucis.dal.ca