[clug] Fine tuning some last bash niggles

[Kim Holburn]

At 3:19 PM +1100 2003/11/05, Michael.James at csiro.au wrote:
>Bash still doesn't have a good "which" function.
>
>Under tcsh, which gives a complete answer.
>
>eg: Why does rm infuriatingly ask if I really mean it?
>
>tcsh> which rm
>aliased to "rm -i"			# AHAH!
>tcsh> unalias rm

type rm
type -a rm

>
>Bash's "which" maintains a guilty silence.

>type -a which
which is /usr/bin/which

>
>Or:
>bash> ln -s real-dir  soft-link-to-dir
>bash> cd soft-link-to-dir
>bash> pwd
>~/soft-link-to-dir
>		# what! That's how I got here, not where I am
>bash> which pwd
>bash>				# more guilty silence, so try this
>bash> /bin/pwd
>~/real-dir/

pwd -P

>
>So bash has not only subverted pwd
> with its own broken version
> but it won't tell you this has happened.
>
>And it still doesn't have "where" at all.
>"where" used to continue down the path
> reporting all the hits for a given command.
>
>The first listed will be what happens
> if you type the raw (pathless) command,
> the other possibilities follow in order.
>It was useful.
>
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>Michael James				michael.james at csiro.au
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