From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: [PATCH] zshbuiltins(1): Document 'which''s "not found is not an error" behaviour.
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 13:22:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180924132207.25349-1-danielsh@tarpaulin.shahaf.local2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180924125126eucas1p2e4ae5b63ce6320957ee99737f93181ae~XVwcoX7b91518615186eucas1p2T@eucas1p2.samsung.com>
---
Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo b/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo
index 76b593fd2..0141305b4 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo
@@ -2373,6 +2373,12 @@ item(tt(whence) [ tt(-vcwfpamsS) ] [ tt(-x) var(num) ] var(name) ...)(
For each var(name), indicate how it would be interpreted if used as a
command name.
+If var(name) is not an alias, built-in command, external command, shell
+function, hashed command, or a reserved word, the exit status shall be
+non-zero, and DASH()- if tt(-v), tt(-c), or tt(-w) was passed DASH()- a message
+will be written to standard output. (This is different from other shells that
+write that message to standard error.)
+
tt(whence) is most useful when var(name) is only the last path component
of a command, i.e. does not include a `tt(/)'; in particular, pattern
matching only succeeds if just the non-directory component of the command is
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-24 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <CGME20180924080113epcas4p4f8f89aa03a2cebc5030fd45dca0f6e84@epcas4p4.samsung.com>
2018-09-24 8:00 ` BUG: Shell builtin `which` prints non-existent commands to stdout Klaus Alexander Seistrup
2018-09-24 10:22 ` Peter Stephenson
2018-09-24 12:29 ` Klaus Alexander Seistrup
2018-09-24 12:51 ` Peter Stephenson
2018-09-24 13:22 ` Daniel Shahaf [this message]
2018-09-24 22:18 ` Stephane Chazelas
2018-09-25 7:56 ` Stephane Chazelas
2018-09-24 22:32 ` Stephane Chazelas
2018-09-25 9:10 ` Peter Stephenson
[not found] ` <20180924112218.7bac7f2c@camnpupstephen.cam.scsc.local>
2018-09-24 10:25 ` Peter Stephenson
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