From kde-devel  Fri May 31 11:45:07 2002
From: Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi () kde ! org>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 11:45:07 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: New admin problems.
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On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 10:28:34AM +0200, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> so instead of using bash-specific extensions, can we patch this to use
> "which" instead?
> 
but "which" is not portable as well. on some systems it's a binary, on
some it's an alias to "type -p" (and therefore not available in scripts)
and some systems don't have it at all. so basically we must first detect
what to use and set a variable $which for further use (or something
similar).

greetings

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