Subject: Re: Strange shell problem
To: <>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/18/2002 23:15:06
> 'which' on NetBSD is a c-shell script. The part relevant to this
> problem is
>
> if ( ! $?found ) then
> echo no $arg in $path
> endif
>
> You can easily add an "exit 1" there after the "echo ...' statement
> to make it do what you want.
>
> Or, you might try 'whereis'.
or 'what'
FWIW there are bugs in the standard shell wrt back quotes and $?.
I'd just assumed that this was one of them.
David
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