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Subject: Re: [gobolinux-users] which
From: Hisham <hisham.hm () gmail ! com>
Date: 2008-03-26 19:45:24
Message-ID: 5e7d91620803261245r68702719iae00894e7e29e8fb () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Nick Matteo <kundor@kundor.org> wrote:
> The "which" provided by Scripts doesn't have the standard "-a" option.
> I've had scripts complain about this (and even fail) a time or two.
> Also, I find it annoying that "which info" lies to me about what
> "info" runs if it is an alias.
>
> To deal with these issues, perhaps it would have been easy enough to
> have Scripts' which do a "-a" and alias which=whence for interactive
> use. But instead I wrote a big which-function. ;-)
>
> By placing this function in /etc/zshenv, it's used even for scripts
> and such. (It needs to be a function, not a script, to be able to
> access aliases etc. in interactive mode.) Then I replace the "which"
> script in the path with a simple script like so:
>
> #!/bin/zsh
> which -f $@
>
> To have my script used by other programs appropriately.
> If you'd like to do the same, you can get the zshenv at
> http://kundor.org/gobostuff/zshenv . If you place this file in
> /Programs/ZSH/Settings,
> then
> cd /Programs/ZSH/Settings
> zcompile zshenv
> (You may need root for that)
> SymlinkProgram ZSH
>
> It will create a precompiled version of the function to speed up shell
> loads. (You can also "zcompile zshrc" for the same purpose.)
> Then put that two-liner script in your path as "which" and you will
> get an option-accepting, alias-reporting which ;-)
>
> Options taken are -h/--help, -a/--all (reports multiple results from path),
> -p/--path-only (Normally, an alias, builtin, or function is reported
> as e.g. "aliased to /Programs/Foo/1/...". This strips everything but
> the path so that "file `which -p foo`" and similar constructs will
> work properly),
> -f/--file-only (This doesn't check aliases, builtins, or functions,
> reverting to checking for executables only.)
Cool -- I installed it here in my machine to test this for a while.
Results look interesting already. :)
-- Hisham
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