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which command returns incomplete paths that don't work with all commands
- From: Don Beusee <dbeusee at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 15:16:54 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: which command returns incomplete paths that don't work with all commands
I am new to Cygwin, but very experienced with Unix/Linux.
I did this command, just to see how compatible cygwin is with Unix/Linux:
strings -a `which ps` | grep Header
This works on Unix/Linux (it correctly returns nothing for this executable,
but it returns a lot of stuff with Oracle Applications executables). It
does not work with Cygwin because `which ps` returns /usr/bin/ps, which
can't be opened by the strings command:
sh-3.00$ strings -a `which ps`
strings: /usr/bin/ps: No such file or directory
sh-3.00$
Ideally, it would return the absolute path, with the actual extension left
intact. In my case, that would be:
f:/cygwin/bin/ps.exe
This would work inside cygwin or outside - then I can do "strings -a `which
ps`" from sh or cmd/command.
Is there is a really good reason why the which command should return a path
that only cygwin programs can recognize?
-Don
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