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RE: missing 'which' documentation
- From: "Frederich, Eric P21322" <eric dot frederich at siemens dot com>
- To: "Cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:23:58 -0500
- Subject: RE: missing 'which' documentation
- References: <4760AD25.1010802@veritech.com>
Ha. I just saw this subject and though "man which", then I got hungry.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of Lee D. Rothstein
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 10:55 PM
> To: Cygwin
> Subject: missing 'which' documentation
>
> Does anybody know or care that there is an option --
> '-a' -- for 'which' -- that is not documented on
> Cygwin. That is, there is no internal help, and there
> is no 'man' or 'info' page provided by Cygwin install.
> If anybody wants this, I will find or create the 'man'
> page and make it cover '-a', and then do *what* with
> it? Pointers appreciated!
>
> To see the value of this option try (assuming you have MS
> executable directories in your path):
>
> which ping vs which -a ping
> which find vs which -a find
>
> and
>
> which dir == which -a dir
>
> i.e., 'dir' is an internal of 'cmd.exe'
>
> Lee Rothstein
>
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