From: Al Clark (aclark@netcom.com)
Date: 07/08/92


From: aclark@netcom.com (Al Clark)
Subject: Re: Where is which?
Date: 9 Jul 1992 01:40:45 GMT

In article <1992Jul8.081117.17725@nuchat.sccsi.com> kevin@nuchat.sccsi.com (Kevin Brown) writes:
>In article <1992Jul6.192433.24063@pool.info.sunyit.edu> ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) writes:
>>In article <138mjdINNp1@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> kxb@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl R. Buck) writes:
    [ skipping stuff about finding which ]
>>It must be an internal command that wasn't implemented in early versions
>>of the bash binary, because I don't have it either. I'm replacing all of
>>my old stuff, so this problem should be gone pretty soon. :-)
>
    [ skipping "which" script ]
>
>>* James L. Henrickson ujlh@sunyit.edu
>>* "Yet another Jim in the Linux world." :-)
>--
> Kevin Brown

Actually, the effect of "which" is obtained with "type -path"; you
can use
alias which='type -path'
in your .profile. Note that bash must be invoked as "bash" in order to
get this kind of bash feature. Use "/bin/bash" in your passwd file.

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