I took Teemus very good suggestion and changed [-a] to [-as] now :) https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debianutils/-/merge_requests/6/diffs#ed04ff4dabf1e2d4cd6b89136c2b24dec27ecca4_21_24
Is there anything more I should change? Who can merge? :) Den fre 14 aug. 2020 kl 16:07 skrev Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org>: > On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 at 14:46:39 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Regardless of the -s option, why is command preferred over which? Due > > to it being POSIX or for some other reason? > > * command is POSIX, so any Unixish environment should have it, whereas > which is non-standard, so it's anyone's guess whether it will exist > on embedded, proprietary or otherwise limited Unixes > (some upstream packages don't care about this, and Debian packages never > have to, but for some upstream packages it matters) > > * relatedly, the which "API" is Unix folklore rather than formally written > down, so it's easy to rely on features of one implementation that others > don't have, like this -s option; debianutils which only has one option, > -a, and GNU which also has that option, but it wouldn't surprise me if > implementations exist that don't have -a > > * command is a shell builtin (I don't think the spec explicitly says so, > but it can't work as documented unless it is), so "command -v java" > is faster and more accurately reflects what your shell will actually do > when you try to run java, typically on the next line of the same script > > smcv > >
