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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Make pwd print escape character Post 302511881 by jelloir on Thursday 7th of April 2011 09:01:56 PM
Old 04-07-2011
Thanks, that works.

I would like to have used cd as the function name but using cd as the function calls cd which is now the function, i.e. loop and stuck.

cd is a builtin so cannot provide the full path to "cd". I imagine an alias would have the same problem?
 

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which

WHICH(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						  WHICH(1)

NAME

     which -- locate a program file in the user's path

SYNOPSIS

     which [-as] program ...

DESCRIPTION

     The which utility takes a list of command names and searches the path for each executable file that would be run had these commands actually
     been invoked.

     The following options are available:

     -a      List all instances of executables found (instead of just the first one of each).

     -s      No output, just return 0 if all of the executables are found, or 1 if some were not found.

     Some shells may provide a builtin which command which is similar or identical to this utility.  Consult the builtin(1) manual page.

SEE ALSO

     builtin(1), csh(1), find(1), locate(1), whereis(1)

HISTORY

     The which command first appeared in FreeBSD 2.1.

AUTHORS

     The which utility was originally written in Perl and was contributed by Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>.  The current version of which
     was rewritten in C by Daniel Papasian <dpapasia@andrew.cmu.edu>.

BSD
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