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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!fnnews.fnal.gov!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!deshaw.com!christos From: christos@deshaw.com (Christos Zoulas) Subject: Re: FBSD 2.0-950112: Missing "which" Message-ID: <D2xDpA.K5o@deshaw.com> Sender: usenet@deshaw.com Nntp-Posting-Host: cs4 Organization: D. E. Shaw & Co. References: <3g386a$mfq@Owl.nstn.ca> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 19:48:46 GMT Lines: 26 In article <3g386a$mfq@Owl.nstn.ca> digdon@Snoopy.UCIS.Dal.Ca (Mike Digdon) writes: >I tend to use the "which" command quite a lot. Before I had time to install >bash (I just set up my machine), I had to use csh. "which" seems to be a csh >built-in, so I was very surprised to find that "which" stopped working once >I was running bash. > >On my SunOS system at work, "which" is found in /usr/ucb, and is not a >built-in function. So, before I write my own verion of "which", is there >some source for this floating around somewhere? I tried to find some in >various places, but was unsuccessful. > >If there isn't and I do end up writing such a beast (well, which isn't THAT >complicated), would anyone be interested in it? > which is type in bourne like shells... Here's a which for you: #!/bin/csh -f which $* or if you prefer #!/usr/sh type "$@" christos