Changeset 85ef7049

Timestamp:

02/26/2003 12:43:40 AM (22 years ago)

Author:

Mark Hymers <markh@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.2.0, 6.2.0-rc1, 6.2.0-rc2, 6.3, 6.3-rc1, 6.3-rc2, 6.3-rc3, 7.10, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.6-blfs, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, gimp3, gnome, kde5-13430, kde5-14269, kde5-14686, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, krejzi/svn, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, systemd-11177, systemd-13485, trunk, upgradedb, v1_0, v5_0, v5_0-pre1, v5_1, v5_1-pre1, xry111/for-12.3, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/spidermonkey128, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

d0721ff

Parents:

c773e7e

Message:

update which instructions

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@732 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Files:

• general/sysutils/which.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• introduction/welcome/changelog.xml (modified) (1 diff)

general/sysutils/which.xml

@@ -6 +6 @@
 is probably one of the most contentious issues we have on the mailing
 lists.  It has resulted in at least one flame war in the recent past.
-To hopefully put an end to this once and for all, we here present the
-various options for equipping your system with "which".</para>
+To hopefully put an end to this once and for all, we here present two of
+the options for equipping your system with "which".</para>
 
-<para>The first option is simply to use a bash alias:</para>
-<screen>alias which='type -p'</screen>
-<para>This command can be put in your
-<filename>~/.bash_profile</filename> or <filename>~/.bashrc</filename>
-file in order to be set up each time you log in (see man bash for more
-information on the bash login files).  This will not always work
-however, for example it will fail when a program needs to use "which"
-but
-doesn't spawn a shell.</para>
+<para>The first option is to install the actual GNU program
+<emphasis>which</emphasis>.</para>
 
-<para>The second option is to create a simple script:</para>
+&which-intro;
+&which-inst;
+&which-desc;
+
+<sect2><title>The 'which' script</title>
+<para>The second option (for those who don't want to install the program)
+is to create a simple script:</para>
 <para><screen><userinput>cat &gt; /usr/bin/which &lt;&lt; "EOF"</userinput>
 #!/bin/bash
@@ -28 +27 @@
 <para>This should generally work OK and is probably the easiest solution
 for boxes which don't need a good user environment to work in.</para>
-
-<para>The third option is to install the actual program
-<emphasis>which</emphasis>.</para>
-
-&which-intro;
-&which-inst;
-&which-desc;
+</sect2>
 
 </sect1>

introduction/welcome/changelog.xml

@@ -10 +10 @@
 
 <itemizedlist>
+
+<listitem><para>February 25th, 2003 [markh]: General: Removed alias 
+option from which and put the actual package first in the 
+list.</para></listitem>
 
 <listitem><para>February 25th, 2003 [larry]: Multimedia: Updated to