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
next reply other threads:[~1993-03-10 23:41 UTC|newest]
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1993-03-10 23:21 Tom Culliton x2278 [this message]
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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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