Re: which

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net>]

Deepa,

If you find daunting the fact that 23 packages included a file whose 
name contained the string "which," I suggest including the file name 
suffix (or in some way narrowing the search by including more 
information about the file you seek). Of course, including ".exe" 
excludes symlinks and scripts, so it's far from a fool-proof method, 
but in many cases it's a useful technique. It works well for libraries 
(".dll" or ".a"), too.

A simple, one-paragraph description of how the search string is 
interpreted would probably enhance the usefulness of the package 
content search function of <http://cygwin.com/packages/> and perhaps 
lighten the load here.

Randall Schulz


At 11:29 2003-04-25, Max Bowsher wrote:
>DEEPA SIVASANKARANE wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >   I looked for "which" in the package list and
> > got the list below. But I could'nt figure out in
> > which package it really is, as I ran "setup". Does'nt
> > seem to be bash or binutils..
> > Could someone pls. help ?
>...
> > Cygwin Package List
> > Search Results
> > Found 23 matches for which.
>...
> >  which/which-1.5-1 Displays where a particular program in
> > your path is located
>
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Gosh, could it be this one perhaps?
>
>
>Max.


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