From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15631 invoked by alias); 25 Apr 2003 19:22:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 15623 invoked from network); 25 Apr 2003 19:22:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 25 Apr 2003 19:22:15 -0000 Received: from localhost (pechtcha@localhost) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.11.7+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id h3PJMDT16554; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:22:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 20:26:00 -0000 From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Randall R Schulz cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: which In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20030425114336.038d6c08@pop.sonic.net> Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SW-Source: 2003-04/txt/msg02246.txt.bz2 I'd just like to add for the archives that, if you know you're searching for a program, you could *prefix* the search string with "bin/", e.g., search for "bin/which". This will include scripts and symlinks. FWIW, I agree with the suggestion about a search query description. Care to write one? ;-) Including some examples might be best. Igor On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: > 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 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. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. -- Leto II -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/