Switched to Bash and Comparison of Shells

[Jerry]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:41:32 -0400
Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> articulated:

> bash (like most other sh-style shells) has no "which" builtin.  You
> end up running /usr/bin/which.  bash (like most other sh-style
> shells) does have a (rough) equivalent, which is "type"

Personally, I have found the "command" equivalent quite adequate. I use
a version of the following in all of my Bash scripts that require
checking for the presents of another program.

command -v command1 >/dev/null && echo "command1 Found In \$PATH" || echo "command1 Not Found in \$PATH"

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Jerry
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