[SunRescue] Locate for Solaris ??

Dave McGuire rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri May 18 22:32:48 CDT 2001


On May 18, Rich Lafferty wrote:
> No, "which" is a program for csh users which looks to see where
> something would be in your path. (The sh equivalent is a builtin,
> 'type').

  'which' isn't shell-specific.  In some operating systems, it's even
a script or a binary rather than a shell builtin.

  I use bash, which is closer to sh than to csh, and I use which all
the time.  On my Irix box, it's a shell script in /usr/bsd.

          -Dave McGuire



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