>>>>> "Jari" == Jari Aalto+mail procmail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I am compelled by my nature to pick a couple nits.
Jari> However, one thing is for sure: what(1) is not equivalent of
Jari> ident(1).
I didn't mean that they are identical, I meant they serve the same
purpose in their respective packages. what is to ident as get is to
co.
Jari> What suprises me, is that debian community doesn't know
Jari> about the what(1) utility. As Mark demonstrates:
Jari> Get /pub/debian/dists/slink/Contents-i386.gz
Jari> zgrep '/what[^a-z._-]'
Jari> Think "Oh, it printed nothing,
Jari> I think he means
Jari> zgrep "@\(#\)"
No, I meant to answer the original poster's second question,
>>>>> "Keith" == the original poster, whose message I am unable to
quote automatically with supercite
Keith> 2) how could I effectively use the web pages search, or
Keith> some other search capability, to have answered that
Keith> question without bothering the debian mailing lists?
by demonstrating a way to see if there is an executable called "what"
in Debian (checking the Contents-i386 file).
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