Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 09:05:04 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-current users) Cc: root@io.cts.com (Morgan Davis) Subject: Re: whereis Message-ID: <199509100705.JAA20049@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199509100001.RAA08139@io.cts.com> from "Morgan Davis" at Sep 9, 95 05:01:47 pm
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As Morgan Davis wrote: > > I've often wondered why the 'whereis' command doesn't use your $PATH > in addition to the default path it searches. Is there some compelling > reason for not doing this? What you're requesting is covered by "which -a". "whereis" has been crippled beyond recognition in 4.4BSD. It has to be rewritten, the current functionality is absolutely useless. Either Wolfram Schneider (but with low priority for this) or me will revamp it probably in Perl. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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