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From: culliton@srg.srg.af.mil (Tom Culliton x2278)
To: cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu, rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu,
	rsalz@osf.org
Subject: Re:  Things I'd like whatis to have:
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 18:21:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9303101821.aa10970@ceres.srg.af.mil> (raw)

> From: rsalz@osf.org
> 
> here's "whatis -p", called "wh" from a standard old BBN program.
>     fn wh { i=() {
> 	for (i in $path) {
> 	    test -x $i^/^$1 && echo $i^/^$1 && return 0
> 	}
> 	echo $1 not found >[1=2]
> 	return 1
>     } }

This has a slight bug, to avoid getting caught by directories the test
should be:

	test -f $i^/^$1 -a -x $i^/^$1

Tom


             reply	other threads:[~1993-03-10 23:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1993-03-10 23:21 Tom Culliton x2278 [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1993-03-11 15:49 rsalz
1993-03-10 22:16 Tom Culliton x2278
1993-03-10 21:36 rsalz
1993-03-10 21:22 Chris Siebenmann
1993-03-10 21:29 ` mycroft

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