Subject: Re: Tab completion in /bin/sh
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/03/2005 18:21:02
David Laight said:
>You should use 'type' or 'command -[V|v]' not 'which', the latter is posix.
>Both will tell you what the shell will actually do, not what some other
>program thinks it might do.
I've been using "which" since before posix meant anything. I've written
aliases for which with "type". And "type" is just an alias for "whence".
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