[FC3] where is which??

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> If you're using the standalone "which" package in FC (or even older RHL),
> though, you get:
> 
> $ which ll
> alias ll='ls -l --color=tty'
>         /bin/ls
> 
> The best of both worlds -- shows you what the alias is, *and* which binary
> is going to get called.

That is because which package will add an alias to every user (see 
/etc/profile.d/which-2.sh).  Basically, it will first call alias command 
and then it will call which, and that is what gives above output.  But 
it won't tell you about functions and shell built-ins.  For example, try 
"which type" and "type type" and see the difference.  The /usr/bin/which 
binary attempts to emulate which built-in command found in csh and tcsh. 
  But as an external command, it can do only so much.  If you want which 
functionality as found in csh and tcsh, use bourne shell equivalent: type.

If you can't live without which, better idea might be to implement which 
command either as alias or as function inside your shell.  Former if you 
are OK with quick and dirty solution (something like "alias which=type", 
later if you want to traslate "which" options to "type" options and 
change the output of type so that it resembles that of which.

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