Debian bug report logs - #1698
Where is which?

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Subject: Re: Bug#1698: Where is which?
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From: Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca


  Bill Mitchell writes:
  Bill> From the bash(1) man page:
  Bill>  type [-all] [-type | -path] name [name ...]  [...]  type accepts -a,
  Bill> -t, and -p in place of -all, -type, and -path, respectively. [...]

<blush> 
oops I trapped into an alias when I tried 'type -p ls'. Any idea how
to write a little `which' script that captures alias definitions 
</blush>

Thanks for correcting this, Bill.

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Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca> X-Debian-Pr-Package: miscutils

>   Ian Jackson writes:
>   Ian>  There should be a simple `which' script in miscutils, which invokes
>   Ian> bash's `type -p'.
> 
> This should read 'type -path' according to the manpage and the on-line help I
> have here with Debian's bash-1.14.4-2.

>From the bash(1) man page:

       type [-all] [-type | -path] name [name ...]
	      [...]        type accepts -a, -t, and -p	in  place
	      of  -all, -type, and -path, respectively.	[...]

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  Ian Jackson writes:
  Ian>  There should be a simple `which' script in miscutils, which invokes
  Ian> bash's `type -p'.

This should read 'type -path' according to the manpage and the on-line help I
have here with Debian's bash-1.14.4-2.  

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From: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Where is which?

Package: miscutils
Version: 1.3-2

Richard Kettlewell writes ("Re: Where is which?"):
> Anthony Martin writes:
> >The "which" command didn't seem to come with debian.  Isn't this a
> >standard command?
> 
> Under bash, just use `type'.  Under tcsh, `which' is built in.  Who
> needs an extra binary?

There should be a simple `which' script in miscutils, which invokes
bash's `type -p'.

`which' is not just used by people, it is also a very useful command
in scripts, and it seems silly to use a bash-ism when so many systems
have a perfectly good `which' command.

> See `/usr/doc/bug-reporting.txt' for how to report bugs.

I've reported this as a bug (as readers of debian-devel will see).

Ian.