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Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.19pre3
To: cwslist@main.cornernet.com (Chad Schwartz)
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 16:23:27 +0000 (GMT)
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> > why 'standard' Unix/sell/executable commands keep getting changed
> > to GNUisms in distributions.
> 
> I've been asking that question ever since most popular distributions
> started putting a copy of bash in /bin/sh.

And which of the versions of 'which' would you rather people had. Do you want
csh behaviour, tcsh behaviour, which non builtin BSD behaviour, which as alias
trick behaviour, which as ksh behaviour..

There is no standard which command.

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