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Article #63028Re: Where is "which"?
From: Steve Preston
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 20:14
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 20:14
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>>>>> In article <3k0v61$34h@nntp1.u.washington.edu>, olsenc@kodiak.ee.washington.edu (Clint Olsen) writes: In article <3k0v61$34h@nntp1.u.washington.edu> olsenc@kodiak.ee.washington.edu (Clint Olsen) writes: > In article <COLEMAN.95Mar12232748@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu>, > Richard Coleman <coleman@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> wrote: >>>> Where is the "which" command. Eelco> 'which' is an internal command from the C-shell and its derivatives (csh, tcsh). >> Hmm.. I believe that "which" is typically a c-shell script. At >> least it is on our system (Solaris 2.4). But it is also a builtin for >> tcsh, zsh > Bash's equivalent is called "type". If you use a non csh shell, then the csh script version of 'which' is pretty useless, since it does not see your current PATH. There is a which that works correctly. You can find it, for example, in gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume17/which6. -- Steve Preston (spreston@gte.com)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,68ac9cf3ff2e3960 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-15 10:32:30 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!dearn!blekul11!ccsdec1.ufsia.ac.be!reks.uia.ac.be!idefix.CS.kuleuven.ac.be! Belgium.EU.net!EU.net!news.sprintlink.net!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!news.mathworks.com!news2.near.net!ceylon!ceylon!steve From: steve@eowyn.gte.com (Steve Preston) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Where is "which"? Date: 14 Mar 1995 20:14:47 GMT Organization: GTE Laboratories Lines: 21 Message-ID: <STEVE.95Mar14151447@eowyn.gte.com> References: <3jfnjp$3f4@qualcomm.com> <D5AuDt.4yH@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl> <COLEMAN.95Mar12232748@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> <3k0v61$34h@nntp1.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: eowyn.gte.com In-reply-to: olsenc@kodiak.ee.washington.edu's message of 13 Mar 1995 08:19:13 GMT