[PLUG] which_command

[Marv]

On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 15:50, Colin Kuskie wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 03:44:38PM -0700, Marv wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 15:14, Rich Shepard wrote:
> > > On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Marv wrote:
> > > 
> > > > How can I verify after the fact, what produced the output. Builtin or
> > > > /bin/echo?
> > > 
> > > Marv,
> > > 
> > >   I do believe that the shell's built-in commands take precedence. If you
> > > want to use the separate executable, specify the full path.
> > > 
> > > Rich
> > 
> > Agree.... Unless for some reason builtin is broke.
> > 
> > How would I know??
> 
> In tcsh, you can say:
> 
> 
> which command
> 
> and it will tell you what it is using.
> 
> If you say:
> 
> where command
> 
> then it will list all possible commands as determined by the search path.
> 
> Colin
> 
Bash has which and whereis  but, that only lists
names for commands in directories.  NOT builtin

This dosen't seem to answer the question.

Thanks for the feedback.

Marv