which command...

[tchatzi]

I just got fedora core 2 and it doesn't have the which command that i need for a particular software.
Is there any place i can find the which utility or enable it some way?

Thanks.......


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[sleipnir214]

If you're talking about the command which prints out the full path of shell commands? It's on my FC2 box. Did you install the "which" RPM package?


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[tchatzi]

i did install it but there is no 'which' executable, nor any 'which' shell script.
locate which
comes up with these

/root/sources/ircii/help/which
/root/sources/ActiveTcl8.4.9.1.139183-linux-ix86/lib/xotcl1.3.6/apps/utils/xo-whichPkg
/etc/profile.d/which-2.sh
/usr/share/comps-extras/whichcd.py
/usr/share/man/man1/which.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/kpsewhich.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ypwhich.1.gz
/usr/share/emacs/21.3/lisp/which-func.elc
/usr/share/info/which.info.gz
/usr/share/doc/bash-2.05b/functions/which
/usr/share/doc/which-2.16
/usr/share/doc/which-2.16/EXAMPLES
/usr/share/doc/which-2.16/README
/usr/share/doc/which-2.16
/usr/local/share/irc/help/which
/usr/local/ActiveTcl/lib/xotcl1.3.6/apps/utils/xo-whichPkg
/usr/bin/ypwhich
/usr/bin/sgmlwhich
/usr/bin/kpsewhich
/usr/lib/ooo-1.1/program/python-core-2.2.2/lib/whichdb.py
/usr/lib/python2.3/whichdb.py
/usr/lib/python2.3/test/test_whichdb.py
/usr/lib/python2.3/whichdb.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.3/whichdb.pyc

Is it something from this list?


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[sleipnir214]

I dunno.

I see the man page:

/usr/share/man/man1/which.1.gz

but my machine also has:

/usr/bin/which


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[tchatzi]

what about 'wish' ?


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[sleipnir214]

What about it?


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[tchatzi]

i just got it, I installed tcl and tk and all if fine with 'wish'.

But still no 'which'


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[thedaver]

What does "rpm -qa | grep -i which" tell you?
If it's not there, go find the appropriate "which".rpm and install it.



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[SamBones]

Here's a quick and dirty [tt]which[/tt] in Korn Shell...

#!/bin/ksh

[[ "${1}" = "" ]] && exit

FILE="${1}"
DIRS=$(print ${PATH}|sed 's/::/:.:/g;s/:$/:./g;s/:/ /g')

for DIR in ${DIRS}
do
    [[ -x ${DIR}/${FILE} ]] && print ${DIR}/${FILE} && exit
done

print "no ${FILE} in ${DIRS}"

exit

If you can't find the right tool, make your own tools!

Hope this helps.

 

[tchatzi]

daver
--------
> rpm -qa | grep -i which
gives me
which-2.16-2

Sam
-------
I change the first line to '#!/bin/sh'
and the print comands to echo
and it works great.

The thing is that i got AOL with BT Voyager 105 modem, and i found these drivers for this modem and when you try to startmodem it says that 'which command not found'.

Now it doesn't, but it says
[EciAdsl 5/5] Setting up route table...
Waiting for tap0... ..........
no tap0 device found

I dont even know why it search for a tap device. Is it something like tun0?
I don't know........ I guess i have to stay with a windows laptop as my proxy server for my fd2.




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he poses the right questions.''
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[thedaver]

WTF? Where did the tun/tap conversation come from?

Do this to find "which"

"cd /; find -inane *which*"

It's obviously not in your search path, but it IS installed.

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[tchatzi]

I woke up like half hour ago, and i realise that now there is a 'which' executable in my /usr/bin
It must have come up when i try to reinstall the which-2.16-2.rpm and because i shutdown the pc yesterday, today is there. ( I don't know why thought)

Anyway for some reason now i do have the which executable and is not the one that Sam gave me.
I rename the script to which and put it into /usr/local/bin which is in my path. But when i did > which which i got

alias which='alias | /usr/bin/which --tty-only --read-alias --show-dot --show-tilde'
        /usr/bin/which

I deleted the script 'which' that Sam gave me from /usr/local/bin, (just in case), and i run again 'which' and it works fine so it must have come up when i reinstal it.

Now the problem changed and it is with this tap device.
Did anyone had the same problem, trying to connect a linux with AOL and BT ?
What is this tap0 anyway? Is there any chance to create it?


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he poses the right questions.''
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[thedaver]

Start a new thread.

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[SamBones]

That alias for [tt]which[/tt] is correct, and the output you got was correct. What that alias does is show you if the command you are trying to find with [tt]which[/tt] is an alias or an actual executable somewhere. Since you did a [tt]which which[/tt], it showed you the alias definition, then where the executable was located.

Hope this helps.