Comments on: Avoid Using which(1) http://pthree.org/2011/09/26/avoid-using-which1/ Linux. GNU. Freedom. Fri, 17 May 2013 20:46:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6-beta2-24176 By: Aaron Toponce http://pthree.org/2011/09/26/avoid-using-which1/#comment-115976 Aaron Toponce Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:19:06 +0000 http://pthree.org/?p=2054#comment-115976 @yazul- Except that it’s Debian-specific. While POSIX standardized, you can’t rely on that script being available for other operating systems. Best to learn the shell’s built-ins.

@Sam- I mentioned the “type” built-in from Bash, although not specifically the “-a” switch.

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]]> By: yazul http://pthree.org/2011/09/26/avoid-using-which1/#comment-115974 yazul Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:37:47 +0000 http://pthree.org/?p=2054#comment-115974 There is a good, reliable, and portable shell script “which” from debianutils.

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