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Tuesday March 18, 2003
12:05 PM
whereis a decent whereis?
I have decided that the whereis command sucks. Not only does it list directories with the -b option (it shouldn't), it's clearly not picking up every instance of an executable on my system. I triple checked the path to make sure, and a home grown program works as expected.
I'm half surprised GNU doesn't have their own whereis, given what a piece of junk this thing is. Time to replace the one I have with the one I wrote.
In other news, I'm surprised there was no mention of the latest Parrot release here on use.perl.
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which/whence (Score:2)
Re:which/whence (Score:2)
I have no 'whence' command on my Mandrake 9 box it seems (not in my path, no manpage for it either).
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Re: whereis a decent whereis? (Score:1)
On systems that have it I like the GNU locate [gnu.org] command.