From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 20 21:22:13 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id VAA12720 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 21:22:13 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA12710 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 1995 21:22:06 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA14299; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 06:22:03 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id GAA19063 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 06:22:03 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id EAA03347 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 04:26:39 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508210226.EAA03347@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: whereis whereis? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 04:26:38 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508201039.MAA00820@localhost> from "Wolfram Schneider" at Aug 20, 95 12:39:51 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 382 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Wolfram Schneider wrote: > > >So whereis(1) now finally degraded to which(1) (sort of). > > $ whereis ls > /bin/ls > $ echo $? > 255 > $ whereis /bin/ls |wc -l > 0 > > It is buggy and not a which(1). Sort of. A poor clone. :-} -- 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. ;-)