On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:35:38PM -0400, Roland Dowdeswell wrote:
> On 1065475161 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
> "Jesper Louis Andersen" wrote:
> >
> >I was amazed to find that which(1) is a csh script. It makes it rather
> >hard to rely on it when searching for things in a $PATH variable, 
> >since csh as far as I can see sources $path instead and doesnt merge
> >$PATH into it (and you are using ksh). 
> 
> If you are using ksh, then you should be using the ksh builtin
> whence.  It does the right thing.

For a Posix conformant 'sh' (which should include ksh and netbsd's sh)
'command -v name' or 'comamnd -V name' should work.

'which' is a csh builtin/script - so is rather pointless!
'type' is the traditional 'sh' way of finding out where/what a comamnd
is, and should work for most non-csh shells.  Posix defined 'command -v'
because the output of 'type' was too system dependant.
'whence' is a ksh'ism that isn't in the Posix standard.

	David

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