Re: OT - rm different on Ubuntu than Fedora

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On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 5:19 AM, Jon Ingason <jon.ingason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Den 2018-01-20 kl. 10:34, skrev Tom H:
>> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 2:10 AM, Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Also: "which rm" should show what executable is being used, and the
>>> bash "which" IIRC also shows if an alias or function is involved (I'm
>>> a zsh person myself).
>>
>> There's no "which" builtin in bash. IIRC, only tcsh and zsh have one.
>>
>> On Debuntu, "which" is an sh script (as it was a csh script in the
>> past in Unix):
>>
>> th@sid ~ $ file /bin/which
>> /bin/which: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable
>> th@sid ~ $
>>
>> It only shows a command with an absolute path and it only has a "-a" option:
>>
>> th@sid ~ $ which -a which
>> /usr/bin/which
>> /bin/which
>> th@sid ~ $
>>
>> In bash, "command -v", "command -V", "type -t" will show what an executable is.
>
> I get following results:
>
> $ cat /etc/fedora-release
> Fedora release 26 (Twenty Six)
> $ uname -srvmo
> Linux 4.14.13-200.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jan 11 05:43:34 UTC 2018 x86_64
> GNU/Linux
> $ $ which -a which
> alias which='(alias; declare -f) | /usr/bin/which --tty-only
> --read-alias --read-functions --show-tilde --show-dot'
>         /usr/bin/which
> $ file /usr/bin/which
> /usr/bin/which: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),
> dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for
> GNU/Linux 2.6.32,
> BuildID[sha1]=e5043d949b50c50148e2d8e3db71b9ee7bf8b9e9, stripped
>
> I read out of this that there is only on which, /usr/bin/which, at least
> in Fedora 26 :-)

On Fedora, of course! "which" on Fedora is a compiled executable whose
upstream is on gnu.org.

I was responding to the suggestion of using "which" on Ubuntu.
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