[clug] Another esoteric question...

[Duncan Roe]

I always use the bash "type" builtin in preference to "which".

Then you could type "vi $(type -p mycommand.sh)"

(or use the old-style backticks - 1 less character to type ;)

Cheers ... Duncan.


On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 01:55:48PM +1100, Andrew Janke wrote:
> Given that my last question (terminal encoding: ^V^O) was so
> comprehensively answered. Here is another of my niggling shell
> questions that has annoyed me for a long time.
>
> Is there a way where you can use some sort of variable in a subsequent
> command that matches the output of the last command ala !$ with the
> last argument from the previous command.
>
> ie:
>
>    $ which mycommand.sh
>    /usr/local/bin/mycommand.sh
>
>    $ vi <something>
>
> Where <something> is /usr/local/bin/mycommand.sh
>
> Currently I do this via a dodgy shell function 'vs' (vi script):
>
>    function vs () {
>       vim `which "${1}"`
>       }
>
> ta
>
>
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