On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 05:02:20PM +0100, Philip Reynolds wrote:
> $ which ps
>> Will give you what ps is using, which should be as you assume,
> /bin/ps.
If you're using bash, what you get with which depends on what which is :-)
It's aliased to type -p on this box, and on the box which started this
thread, it's aliased to
alias | /usr/bin/which --tty-only --read-alias --show-dot --show-tilde
Using bash, as most Linux users are, type is the command to use - takes
account of aliases, bash functions, and executables along the path.
Niall
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