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Date:	Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:22:13 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To:	Randall R Schulz <rschulz AT sonic DOT net>
cc:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: which
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I'd just like to add for the archives that, if you know you're searching
for a program, you could *prefix* the search string with "bin/", e.g.,
search for "bin/which".  This will include scripts and symlinks.

FWIW, I agree with the suggestion about a search query description.  Care
to write one? ;-)  Including some examples might be best.
	Igor

On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote:

> Deepa,
>
> If you find daunting the fact that 23 packages included a file whose
> name contained the string "which," I suggest including the file name
> suffix (or in some way narrowing the search by including more
> information about the file you seek). Of course, including ".exe"
> excludes symlinks and scripts, so it's far from a fool-proof method,
> but in many cases it's a useful technique. It works well for libraries
> (".dll" or ".a"), too.
>
> A simple, one-paragraph description of how the search string is
> interpreted would probably enhance the usefulness of the package
> content search function of <http://cygwin.com/packages/> and perhaps
> lighten the load here.
>
> Randall Schulz
>
>
> At 11:29 2003-04-25, Max Bowsher wrote:
> >DEEPA SIVASANKARANE wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > >   I looked for "which" in the package list and
> > > got the list below. But I could'nt figure out in
> > > which package it really is, as I ran "setup". Does'nt
> > > seem to be bash or binutils..
> > > Could someone pls. help ?
> >...
> > > Cygwin Package List
> > > Search Results
> > > Found 23 matches for which.
> >...
> > >  which/which-1.5-1 Displays where a particular program in
> > > your path is located
> >
> >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >Gosh, could it be this one perhaps?
> >Max.

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