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Ha.  I just saw this subject and though "man which", then I got hungry.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT 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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