From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] "which"-builtin writes diagnostics to stdout
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 16:16:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <150901161630.ZM2441@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHYJk3Q5JWsbHet5OzPpdf8Y97DHAudkoZeAe2QfH6h6qb4NaQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sep 1, 8:12am, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
}
} I guess the problem here is that in other shells, whence does not
} exist, and which prints 'not found' to stderr.
As far as I can tell, in other shells "which notacommand" prints NOTHING
on stdout or stderr.
} Zsh's which acts like the csh variant even in the sh emulation, so
} finding the absolute path of a command portably is pretty difficult.
Really? This seems to work pretty well in bash/ksh/zsh (I don't have
dash/ash to try):
if absolute_path="$(which $1)"
then echo "Absolute path of $1 is $absolute_path"
fi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-01 23:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-30 3:06 Timo Buhrmester
2015-08-30 5:15 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-08-30 5:26 ` Timo Buhrmester
2015-09-01 6:04 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-09-01 6:12 ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-09-01 23:16 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2015-09-02 8:53 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-09-02 13:48 ` Vincent Lefevre
2015-09-01 13:14 ` Timo Buhrmester
2015-09-01 13:45 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-09-01 23:10 ` Bart Schaefer
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=150901161630.ZM2441@torch.brasslantern.com \
--to=schaefer@brasslantern.com \
--cc=zsh-workers@zsh.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.vuxu.org/mirror/zsh/
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).