On 11/26/24 1:39 PM, Andrew Davis wrote:
-vFor each COMMAND, print a string to indicate how it would be
interpreted by the shell. The command word is printed for shell functions,
built-ins, and keywords, while a pathname is printed for executables found
in PATH. Aliases are printed with th
On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 9:04 PM Martin D Kealey
wrote:
>
> For both ‘command -v’ and ‘command -V’, there are no combinations of
> options for ‘type’ that will produce the same output in all cases.
>
For executables, aliases, functions, built-ins, and keywords, the output of
`command -V` (capital
Date:Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:23:56 +1000
From:Martin D Kealey
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| I'm not convinced that ‘command’ should mention aliases at all, since
| ‘command -v "$var"’ should tell you what ‘"$var"’ will do.
| What it *won't* do is be expanded as an alias.
Absolut
On Tue, 26 Nov 2024 at 12:43, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2024, at 9:03 PM, Martin D Kealey wrote:
> > I keep "similar" there because ‘type -a COMMAND’ shows all possible
> matches
> > for COMMAND, whereas ‘command -V’ only does that when COMMAND is NOT an
> > alias.
>
> I'm not s
On Tuesday, November 26, 2024, Martin D Kealey
wrote:
>
> Would anyone object to adjusting the output of ‘command -V’ to be identical
> to ‘type -a’?
>
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/command.html
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Oğuz
~ $ command -v bash
/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/bash
~ $ command -V bash
bash is /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/bash
V adds english text
On Tue, Nov 26, 2024, 3:44 AM Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2024, at 9:03 PM, Martin D Kealey wrote:
> > I keep "similar" there bec
On Mon, Nov 25, 2024, at 9:47 PM, #!microsuxx wrote:
> V adds english text
That's not what I'm talking about.
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vq
On Mon, Nov 25, 2024, at 9:03 PM, Martin D Kealey wrote:
> I keep "similar" there because ‘type -a COMMAND’ shows all possible matches
> for COMMAND, whereas ‘command -V’ only does that when COMMAND is NOT an
> alias.
I'm not seeing that "command -V" behavior.
$ type -a bash
bash
On Tue, 26 Nov 2024 at 05:35, Andrew Davis wrote:
> When running 'help command' in the shell, the output contains:
>
> > -vprint a description of COMMAND similar to the `type' builtin
> > -Vprint a more verbose description of each COMMAND
>
> This seems to be opposite to the a
On 11/25/24 2:35 PM, Andrew Davis wrote:
When running 'help command' in the shell, the output contains:
-vprint a description of COMMAND similar to the `type' builtin
-Vprint a more verbose description of each COMMAND
This seems to be opposite to the actual behaviour of
When running 'help command' in the shell, the output contains:
> -vprint a description of COMMAND similar to the `type' builtin
> -Vprint a more verbose description of each COMMAND
This seems to be opposite to the actual behaviour of 'command', in which
'-V' (capital V) produc
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