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Re: Cygwin "which" and aliases
- To: RCUNNINGHAM at redlake dot com, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: Cygwin "which" and aliases
- From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 14:08:08 -0700
Bob,
It works fine:
% which which
which ()
/usr/bin/which
%
So I know there is both a binary (or a script) and a shell function. Very
nice, actually.
Are you using BASH? I don't think it would work in a CSH-compatible shell.
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA
At 13:55 2001-10-12, RCUNNINGHAM@redlake.com wrote:
>I wanted to make my "which" command also show aliases, so I tried the
>pretty macro from the which man page. It didn't work.
>
>I decided I also wanted to list functions, so I needed a better approach.
>Here's my attempt at a bash function for which:
>
>which ()
>{
> builtin alias $* 2>|/dev/null;
> set | grep ^$*;
> /usr/bin/which $* 2>|/dev/null | grep -v ^no
>}
>
>
>Try entering "which which".
>
>Anyone know of an improved approach?
>
>
>Regards,
>
>-BobC
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