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- From: bas@phys.uva.nl (Bas de Bakker)
- Subject: Re: ftp site for the unix WHICH command
- In-Reply-To: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu's message of 20 Jan 93 18: 30:02
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:29:45 GMT
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- >>>>> On 20 Jan 93 18:30:02, friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) said:
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- nf> Personally, I would advise against using `which'. It is
- nf> [t]csh-centric and does *bad* things by deliberately sourcing your
- nf> .cshrc (this is a value judgement and I'm not going to waste time
- nf> defending my position---just accept that I think it's bad).
-
- The sourcing part is horrible indeed. Nevertheless, I use 'which'
- quite often as it's a zsh builtin. It simply looks in the command hash
- table.
-
- Bas.
-