Very Computer

I know its out there somewhere.  Can somebody tell me where.

Thanx....

Bill Roberts

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#! /bin/csh -f
#

#
#       which : tells you which program you get
#
# Set prompt so .cshrc will think we're interactive and set aliases.
# Save and restore path to prevent .cshrc from messing it up.
set _which_saved_path_ = ( $path )
set prompt = ""
if ( -r ~/.cshrc && -f ~/.cshrc ) source ~/.cshrc
set path = ( $_which_saved_path_ )
unset prompt _which_saved_path_
set noglob
foreach arg ( $argv )
    set alius = `alias $arg`
    switch ( $#alius )
        case 0 :
            breaksw
        case 1 :
            set arg = $alius[1]
            breaksw
        default :
            echo ${arg}: " " aliased to $alius
            continue
    endsw
    unset found
    if ( $arg:h != $arg:t ) then
        if ( -e $arg ) then
            echo $arg
        else
            echo $arg not found
        endif
        continue
    else
        foreach i ( $path )
            if ( -x $i/$arg && ! -d $i/$arg ) then
                echo $i/$arg
                set found
                break
            endif
        end
    endif
    if ( ! $?found ) then
        echo no $arg in $path
    endif
end
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Quote:> It is a *builtin* in tcsh (just like where)! If you use bash either do:
>    tcsh -c 'which program'
> or write the script:
>    #!/bin/tcsh
>    which $*
> If you use tcsh anyway, just type 'which program'.

$ alias which='type -path'
$ which ls
/bin/ls

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 > "which" is csh script from BSD. You can use tcsh to run this.  I would
 > create a symbolic link to tcsh from /bin/csh for stuff like this
 > (since there is no true csh for Linux).

Silly, silly. 'which' is also built in to tcsh...

Bash users can alias which to "type -path", which works on binaries
but not on shell builtins or aliases. There may be a better way; I
don't use bash much.

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[5:09pm]~ 30%which which
which: shell built-in command.
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Greg Patten                                              Melbourne, Australia

In bash, at least, and I think in tcsh as well, "type -path <filename>
does a good imitation of "which" although it seems not to want to
learn about aliases.  There is probably some way around this...