Bizarre bash problem
Michael O'Donnell
mod+gnhlug at std.com
Fri May 23 17:03:45 EDT 2003
I pretty much never use the 'which' command
any more (5 or 6 yrs now) since I started
using bash. In most cases, the whole point of
using something like 'which' is to learn which
of possibly several files will be invoked when
you type a particular token as the verb in a
shell command. Most of the 'which' commands I
know of are separate programs rather than being
shell builtins. Since a separate program can
only make guesses about the matter in question,
why not ask the shell directly instead.
With bash you simply say:
type fubar
...to learn what bash would use as the fubar
command. If you insist, you can always do
something like:
alias which=type
which fubar
...and you can always ask bash for its
online help by saying:
help type
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