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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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3In article <m0tzTV8-000r3sC@main.statsci.com> Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> writes:

>> > By the way, which is inherantly broken when executed as any sort of
>> > script.  It needs to be a shell builtin or it needs to die.

>I think the point was more that if you define the purpose of 'which' to be
>"tell me what would be run if I use this command", then it has to be a
>shell builtin in order to find shell-local functions and aliases.

Sometimes you need a non-interactive which(1). FreeBSD use which in
bsd.port.mk. Not all shells have a builtin 'which' or the shells use
an other name for which (bash -> type). Our programs should not depend
on non-standardized shell builtins.

Wolfram