Re: 2.2.18pre12 fix for some distros

[Herbert Xu]

On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 03:13:02PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Please replace which with "command -v" which is required by SuS in /bin/sh.
> 
> command -v breaks on some setups. One problem can be seen easily by doing this
> 
> # command -v ls
> alias ls='ls --color=tty'

.bashrc is only read for interactive shells.  Besides, if which is a bash
alias as well,

$ command -v which
alias which='type -path'
$

it will break too,

$ which which
$

I think what you can do is to ignore the value returned by command -v, and
just use it is an indication that this thing exists.  After all, if you can
find it using command -v, just calling it will work too.  Something like

if command -v gcc272 > /dev/null 2> /dev/null; then echo gcc272; else \
echo gcc; fi
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