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From: Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: 'whence' question
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 18:49:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1458.1415209763@thecus.kiddle.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <545A6D66.3080500@eastlink.ca>

Ray Andrews wrote:
> ... yet, although '/usr/local/bin/zsh' is found, all of the other files 
> found by
> 'whence -a zsh' above are missed. How is it that '/usr/local/bin/zsh' 
> matches
> 'zsh*' but '/bin/zsh' does not?

Because /bin/zsh is hidden by /usr/local/bin/zsh. The commands are in a
hash table and there is only the one entry for zsh.

Looking at the source, it seems that whence doesn't support both -a and
-m together though it doesn't produce an error.

I'd agree that this isn't ideal. Note that whence -m does show a zsh
alias in addition to /usr/local/bin/zsh if there is one.

Oliver


  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-05 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-05 18:33 Ray Andrews
2014-11-05 17:49 ` Oliver Kiddle [this message]
2014-11-05 18:00   ` Peter Stephenson
2014-11-06  4:43     ` Bart Schaefer
2014-11-06 21:45       ` Ray Andrews
2014-11-06 21:53         ` Bart Schaefer
2014-11-06 23:15           ` Ray Andrews
2014-11-06 22:54             ` Bart Schaefer
2014-11-05 19:15   ` Ray Andrews
2014-11-05 17:50 ` Peter Stephenson

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