Hello Junio, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > 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 > > Thanks. Somebody else tried: > > found=`which "$command"` > if test -n "$found" > then > ... use $found as the full path to the command > fi > > and got burned because "no httpd in ..." comes to the stdout! That was someting I planed to mention in my email but obviously I forgot. > I did not exactly recall if there was an issue with the exit > status, but your demonstration shows that the status is also > useless. > > We _could_ do something ugly and pointless like: > > test -f `which "$command"` > > but I'd say I prefer the alternative I sent out at that point. Ack. -- Uwe Kleine-König http://www.google.com/search?q=gravity+on+earth%3D - 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
