[MLUG] which command in bash and elsewhere

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Jonathan King wrote:

> Ooh! One of my pet peeves! I hate it when I can do this:
>
> $ which time
> /usr/bin/time
> $ time -V
> -bash: -V: command not found
>
> EMAIL:PROTECTED bash!
>
> I really think bash should have "which" as a built-in, so it can tell 
> you when it's hosing you over and maybe do this:
>
> $ which time
> /usr/bin/time shadowed by bash function "time"
>
> There's another situation I run into that's similarly annoying, but I 
> guess it's too late for me to remember what it is...


Tell us if you remember because that was a good one.  In tcsh, which I am 
in the process of abandoning in favor of bash, you don't get that problem. 
It always tells you correctly which command you are getting - alias, 
builtin, etc.  I thought bash could be configured to do this correctly, 
but maybe I'm wrong.  I can't find info on that right now.  "man which" 
does give some pointers on use of aliases for "which," but I don't know if 
that solves this problem.  "which" can definitely understand aliases but 
maybe not shell built-ins.

Mike

_______________________________________________
members mailing list
EMAIL:PROTECTED
http://mlug.missouri.edu/mailman/listinfo/members