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Date:	Fri, 12 Oct 2001 14:08:08 -0700
To:	RCUNNINGHAM AT redlake DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From:	Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Cygwin "which" and aliases
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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 AT redlake DOT 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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