Surprisingly, the GNU coreutils don't include which, but Busybox does
(under the heading 'debianutils').
If we remove it, I'd add an FAQ referring to 'command -v' though.
On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 at 18:07 Alex Pilon <alp_AT_alexpilon.ca> wrote:
> > > On 2017-10-10-17, Evan Gates <evan.gates_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> I dislike that which(1) is even part of sbase as it's not POSIX. The
> > > > sh builtin 'command' can and should be used in its place as it is
> > > > standardized.
> > >
> > On 10/12/17, Michael Forney <mforney_AT_mforney.org> wrote:
> > > I'm fine removing it assuming there isn't a huge amount of scripts out
> > > there that depend on it.
> >
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 04:39:02PM +0200, isabella parakiss wrote:
> > https://github.com/search?l=Shell&q=which&type=Code&utf8=%E2%9C%93
> >
> > Showing 2,155,004 available code results
>
> Is there practical value for this project though to support such broken
> code?
> Are sbase users going to use that code?
>
> I have to say, the first result lists a page of clearly crappy code on
> GitHub.
> Truly a mecca of `git`tish code. And I know you guys hate Node and Bash.
>
>
Received on Thu Oct 12 2017 - 19:08:44 CEST