Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 23:50:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Morgan Davis <root@io.cts.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: whereis Message-ID: <199509110650.XAA11860@io.cts.com> In-Reply-To: <199509100705.JAA20049@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Sep 10, 95 09:05:04 am
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J Wunsch writes: > > 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". It sure is! Thanks a bunch. Works perfectly. > "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. Yup. You're talking about the original whereis, the one that can find man pages, too, right?
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