Thus spake Jesper Louis Andersen ("JLA> ") sometime Today...

JLA> Quoting Roland Dowdeswell (elric@imrryr.org):
JLA>
JLA> > If you are using ksh, then you should be using the ksh builtin
JLA> > whence.  It does the right thing.
JLA>
JLA> I know that, but assume we are running off /bin/sh and only have
JLA> a POSIX layer. Then what is correct portable way of getting something
JLA> with the same semantics as which(1) or whence in ksh?

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				--*greywolf;
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