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. > > Mike > >
Why do you need to get the path of a program that's in PATH? If you only need to check if it's in PATH then you can use other things, and these in a loop. J.
