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From: Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com>
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Subject: Re: Default PATH setting - reduce to something more sensible?
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:06:23 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-01-23, Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Bash behaves strange here; 'which' doesn't find the executable but
> nonetheless bash executes it, shows its output?

which is a nonstandard command; the POSIX command is type.

In those systems where "which" exists at all, it is often
a locally brewed program that is not exactly the same like
the one in other systems.

In Debian and derivatives thereof, /usr/bin/which is a shell script.

I see that in MacOS, there is a /usr/bin/which whose --help
says to send mail to which-bugs<at>gnu.org; the man page
implicates a Carlo Wood as the culprit behind it.
It doesn't appear to be part of GNU Coreutils.

Which which is which? Burn the which!

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