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Date:      Fri, 3 Mar 2000 10:56:26 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: C shell scripts (was: Re: which(1), rewritten in C?)
Message-ID:  <200003031556.KAA73010@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <5lln40qcpj.fsf@assaris.sics.se>
References:  <20000303005651.A62723@dragon.nuxi.com> <200003030909.KAA72276@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <20000303073621.A91188@dragon.nuxi.com> <5lln40qcpj.fsf@assaris.sics.se>

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<<On 03 Mar 2000 16:45:44 +0100, Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se> said:

> There's a real reason for not writing this in csh.  Because the
> built-in function will return results for csh, which might not be the
> right ones for other shells.

The error is in using `which' with another shell.  The correct command
to use with POSIX-ish shells (sh, ksh, bash, etc.) is `type'.

-GAWollman

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