[clug] finding things on the path

[Michael Still]

Kim Holburn wrote:
> I was trying to find variants of ping on the path, like: fping and 
> hping.  Is there a tool for this?
> 
> Eventually I created a little script:
> 
> #---------------------
> $ more bin/globpath
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> SAVEIFS="$IFS"
> IFS=":"
> paths=( $PATH )
> IFS="$SAVEIFS"
> 
> ls ${paths[@]/%/\/$1}
> #---------------------
> 
> globpath '*ping*'
> 
> Anyone think of a better way?
> 

which -a will do the right thing methinks.

Mikal

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