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Date:      Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:28:24 -0800
From:      Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bin/17395: bin
Message-ID:  <20000315102824.B40338@wopr.caltech.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200003151730.JAA57688@freefall.freebsd.org>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 09:30:04AM -0800
References:  <200003151730.JAA57688@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 09:30:04AM -0800, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

>  > >Synopsis:       This is a replacement for the perl version of which.
>  
>  This was discussed recently on the mailing lists (hackers?) and the
>  general concensus seemed to be that this is unnecessary?

I thought the concensus was that having /usr/bin/which is
unnecessary (because it's a csh(1) builtin, and sh-users should
use "type") but that if it's going to exist, it might as well
be in C or csh (depending on what you think /usr/bin/which ought
to do) rather than Perl.

Is there some reason that it ought to be done in Perl rather
than C, if they do the same thing and the C version is faster?

Matt

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