[SunRescue] Locate for Solaris ??

[Dave McGuire]

  Let me put it this way...on every machine that I've used that wasn't
running bare SysV, I've been able to wype "which foo" and have the box
tell me where an executable named "foo" is.  And it's always been
exactly right. 8-)

       -Dave McGuire

On May 19, Rich Lafferty wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 11:32:48PM -0400, Dave McGuire (mcguire at neurotica.com) wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> A builtin which(1) is a tcsh extension; you won't find it in pure
> csh. On the other hand, I'd be very surprised to find a machine that
> *didn't* have it as a standalone program. 
> 
> But it is shell specific.
> 
> >   I use bash, which is closer to sh than to csh, and I use which all
> > the time. 
> 
> Well, you're welcome to do it, but I can't say I recommend it, since
> you're not getting the information you want.
> 
> > On my Irix box, it's a shell script in /usr/bsd.
> 
> That'd be great on an Irix list. :-) From Solaris's which(1):
> 
> BUGS 
>      Only aliases and paths from  ~/.cshrc  are  used;  importing
>      from  the current environment is not attempted. Must be exe-    
>      cuted by csh(1), since only csh knows about aliases.   
> 
> Interestingly, the IRIX 5.3 machine I've got access to shows
> 
> BUGS
>      Must be executed by a csh, since only csh's know about aliases.
>      Only aliases and paths from ~/.cshrc are used; importing from the
>      current environment, .login, or /etc/cshrc isn't attempted.
> 
> What does 'whatis which' give you on your IRIX machine?
> 
> But even if it *is* nonstandard on IRIX, then machine to machine,
> you've no idea what information you're getting. Ksh-derived shells
> have 'type'; some also have 'whence'. Using those if you use sh-ish
> shells is guaranteed to get you accurate information. With 'which'
> you're at the mercy of your vendor, unless you use csh, in which case
> it's appropriate.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>   -Rich
> 
> -- 
> ------------------------------ Rich Lafferty ---------------------------
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>    Concordia University, Montreal, QC                 (514) 848-7625
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