Apologies, I sent this to the package maintainer's email address instead of to
the address for this bug.
Jack Grahl
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> From: Jack Grahl <jack.gr...@yahoo.co.uk>
> To: lam...@debian.org
> Sent: Sunday, 27 July, 2008 22:52:52
> Subject: util-linux patch - add option to whereis
>
> Dear LaMont,
>
> I hope you are well.
>
> The below suggested patch to files in the 'lenny' util-linux package source
> directory adds a useful piece of functionality to the 'whereis' utility. It
> adds
> an option '-q' (for quiet) to whereis which removes the initial name of
> package
> from each output line. So the output with and without the -q option is shown:
>
> m...@sonja-debian:~/c/util-linux-2.13.1.1$ whereis gunzip
> gunzip: /bin/gunzip /usr/share/man/man1/gunzip.1.gz
> m...@sonja-debian:~/c/util-linux-2.13.1.1$ whereis -q gunzip
> /bin/gunzip /usr/share/man/man1/gunzip.1.gz
>
> This allows the output of 'whereis' to be more easily used in backtick
> substitution, for example in the command lines of 'ls' 'file', etc.
>
> m...@sonja-debian:~/c/util-linux-2.13.1.1$ file `whereis -b gunzip`
> gunzip:: ERROR: cannot open `gunzip:' (No such file or directory)
> /bin/gunzip: POSIX shell script text executable
> m...@sonja-debian:~/c/util-linux-2.13.1.1$ file `whereis -bq gunzip`
> /bin/gunzip: POSIX shell script text executable
>
> I hope that you find the patch acceptable to be applied to the Debian package
> sources. I have checked that the patch works against the 'etch' package
> version
> 2.12r, based on the changelog it should also work for the most recent
> version.
> If there are any changes which you like me to make before accepting the
> patch,
> please let me know.
>
> I am not sure if there is an upstream maintainer for this file, it seems that
> this source code is from BSD UNIX. If you are aware of any maintainer I would
> be
> happy to contact them.
>
> Best wishes,
> Jack Grahl
>
> --- util-linux-2.13.1.1.orig/misc-utils/whereis.c 2008-07-27
> 21:08:43.000000000 +0000
> +++ util-linux-2.13.1.1/misc-utils/whereis.c 2008-07-27 21:22:01.000000000
> +0000
> @@ -140,6 +140,7 @@
> char **Mflag;
> int Mcnt;
> char uflag;
> +char qflag = 0;
> /*
> * whereis name
> * look for source, documentation and binaries
> @@ -190,6 +191,10 @@
> bflag++;
> continue;
>
> + case 'q':
> + qflag++;
> + continue;
> +
> case 'm':
> zerof();
> mflag++;
> @@ -248,7 +253,7 @@
> } else
> print = 1;
> again:
> - if (print)
> + if (print && !qflag)
> printf("%s:", cp);
> if (sflag) {
> looksrc(cp);
>
>
> --- util-linux-2.13.1.1.orig/misc-utils/whereis.1 2008-07-27
> 21:08:43.000000000 +0000
> +++ util-linux-2.13.1.1/misc-utils/whereis.1 2008-07-27 21:23:02.000000000
> +0000
> @@ -108,6 +108,13 @@
> or
> .B \-S
> options are used.
> +.TP
> +.B \-q
> +Don't print the name searched for at the start of each line.
> +This is so that the output from
> +.B whereis
> +can be backtick substituted into the command line of programs such as
> +.BR ls .
> .SH EXAMPLE
> Find all files in
> .B /usr/bin
>
>
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