Re: Where is "which"?

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From: Clint Olsen
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 08:19

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In article <COLEMAN.95Mar12232748@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu>,
Richard Coleman <coleman@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu> wrote:
>>> Where is the "which" command.  I have raided the OS/2 archives,
>>> but I cannot find a "which" in GNUSUTIL, GNUFUTIL and/or
>>> GNUTUTIL.
>
>Eelco> And you won't: 'which' is an internal command from the
>Eelco> 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, (and probably bash, but I'm not sure).  It is not limited
>to derivatives of csh.  You may also have a similar builtin called
>"whence" which is what ksh uses.

Bash's equivalent is called "type".

-Clint

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