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Re: Where do I get the "which" command?

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From: Glen Turner
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 00:00
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Phill Edwards wrote:
> 
> When I try to "make xconfig", it gets part way through and then falls over
> beceause it says it doesn't know what the "which" command is.
> 
> I'm running Debian Linux 2.0.34. Does anyone know what package I need to
> implement "which"?

"which" isn't a command in Linux, it is a command alias
usually defined in /etc/bashrc as:

   alias which="type -path"

I suggest that this lies at the heart of your problem.

In the very worst case, you could create a /usr/local/bin/which
shell script containing something like

   #!/bin/bash -
   type -path ${*}

But things would have to be very broken for you to need to do that.
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