#113 closed defect (wontfix)
we should add the 'which' program to the LFS system
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Book | Version: | 3.0-pre4 |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
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Description
I think the GNU 'which' program should be installed in the LFS system. I think it makes sense to add that program because it is used somewhat often. We already install the 'whoami' and 'whereis', and IMHO 'which' is used more then those two.
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This has been brought up a few times already. Basically what people use 'which' for can verye easily be replaced by the following shell script:
#!/bin/sh type -p "$@" #end which
The gnu which package may be more powerful giving dozens of kewler options, but they can for the most part all be emulated by the bash built-in command 'type'.
The only reason why you may not want to use it if you don't use the bash shell but a different shell that has no or bad 'type' support.
Either way general consensus on lfs-discuss was that it's not worth an entire package when you can run 'type -p'