Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 13:18:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: "which" command does not expand "~" in path In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <6.1.2.0.1.20040929010527.027f4eb0@mail.ros.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Brian Ford wrote: > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Errol Smith wrote: > > > This is all fine & good, but it doesn't change the fact that the > > cygwin-supplied "which" does NOT work with the cygwin-supplied > > ".bash_profile" (when you use a personal ~/bin directory.). > > I'm just curious. This is from the Solaris 8 man page for which: > > DESCRIPTION > [snip] > Both aliases and path are taken from the user's .cshrc file > [snip] > SEE ALSO > csh(1) > [snip] > So, is this a Solaris non-compliance issue, or is which not supposed to be > valid under any non-csh derrived shell? "which" is also a csh builtin. I imagine that the apropos database on Solaris contains the "csh(1)" match for "which" before the "which(1)" entry, so "man which" finds it first. Try "man -a which"... :-) Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/