Bizarre bash problem

Erik Price erikprice at mac.com
Tue May 27 00:40:49 EDT 2003


On Friday, May 23, 2003, at 05:03  PM, Michael O'Donnell wrote:

> shell builtins.  Since a separate program can
> only make guesses about the matter in question,
> why not ask the shell directly instead.

If you use "which" in shell scripts to determine the location of an 
executable given its name, but you want to try using "type" instead, 
you can make use of type with the -p option to avoid getting the 
verbose output:

wintermute:~/down$ which bash
/bin/bash
wintermute:~/down$ type bash
bash is /bin/bash
wintermute:~/down$ type -p bash
/bin/bash


Erik




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