Re: Where is "which"?

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From: MYNOTT S T
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 11:31

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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.

The equivalent buildin to `which' in the bash shell is `type'.

type: type [-all] [-type | -path] [name ...]
        For each NAME, indicate how it would be interpreted if used as a
        command name.

--
Steve # S.T.Mynott@city.ac.uk | dougal@gnu.ai.mit.edu
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