Hello Junio, Junio C Hamano wrote: > By the way, I do not know if the use of "which" there is > portable. Have Solaris folks tried this program ever? I don't count myself to "Solaris folks", even though I still use it to read and write my email. But anyhow I know some of the pitfalls... login@~ > /bin/bash --version GNU bash, version 3.00.16(1)-release (sparc-sun-solaris2.10) Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. login@~ > /bin/bash zeisberg@login ~$ which httpd && echo successful no httpd in /home/zeisberg/bin /home/zeisberg/usr/bin /opt/bin /usr/local/graphics/bin /usr/local/gnu/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/local/X11R6/bin /usr/xpg4/bin /usr/bin /usr/ccs/bin /usr/sbin /usr/ucb /usr/openwin/bin successful That is, with httpd_only=httpd I get: $ if expr "z$httpd_only" : "z/" >/dev/null || \ which $httpd_only >/dev/null then $httpd_only arg1 arg2 fi bash: httpd: command not found Best regards Uwe -- Uwe Kleine-König If a lawyer and an IRS agent were both drowning, and you could only save one of them, would you go to lunch or read the paper? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html