On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Mike Coleman wrote:
[Oops--I sent that incomplete.]
It would be nice if there was some really brief syntax for
$(type -p somecommand)
I find myself using this all day long with 'ls', 'file', 'ldd',
'strings', 'nm', etc., and the current incantation is just long enough
to be annoying.
Use a function, e.g.:
p()
{
pp=$( type -p "$@" )
}
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