On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Brian Ford wrote: > > 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] > > So, is this a Solaris non-compliance issue, or is which not supposed to be > > valid under any non-csh derrived shell? > > "which" is also a csh builtin.
The only reference to which in csh(1) is to which(1). > I imagine that the apropos database on Solaris contains the "csh(1)" > match for "which" before the "which(1)" entry, so "man which" finds it > first. Try "man -a which"... :-) Nope. That quote comes from which(1), and man -a which doesn't turn anything else up. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained pilot... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
