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Re: which
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Randall R Schulz <rschulz at sonic dot net>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:22:13 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: which
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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 <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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