On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Errol Smith wrote:
> This is all fine & good, but it doesn't change the fact that the
> cygwin-supplied "which" does NOT work with the cygwin-supplied
> ".bash_profile" (when you use a personal ~/bin directory.).
I'm just curious. This is from the Solaris 8 man page for which:
DESCRIPTION
[snip]
Both aliases and path are taken from the user's .cshrc file
[snip]
SEE ALSO
csh(1)
[snip]
BUGS
Only aliases and paths from ~/.cshrc are used; importing
from the current environment is not attempted. Must be exe-
cuted by csh(1), since only csh knows about aliases.
To compensate for ~/.cshrc files in which aliases depend
upon the prompt variable being set, which sets this variable
to NULL. If the ~/.cshrc produces output or prompts for
input when prompt is set, which may produce some strange
results.
So, is this a Solaris non-compliance issue, or is which not supposed to be
valid under any non-csh derrived shell?
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