Path: utzoo!censor!markk From: markk@censor.UUCP (Mark Keating) Newsgroups: alt.sources Subject: Re: Path Program Summary: follow-up to Path posting or which which is which Message-ID: <720@censor.UUCP> Date: 19 Jun 89 16:58:48 GMT References: <2912@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> <9430@csli.Stanford.EDU> Distribution: na Organization: Bell Canada, Business Development, Toronto Lines: 34 I've received several cards 'n letters from some of the folks out there in netland, about my recent path posting, and no I don't know how it differs, if at all to the BSC which program, any clarification here would be appreciated, although I don't think it's a SYSV thing, I know we don't have it (which) here. I also recieved a script, and one was posted as well to do the same thing with the exception that path entries located are not conditionally passed through `ls', which I find very useful ie: `path path -l path -x path' will produce /usr/bin/path -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11896 Jun 17 1989 /usr/bin/path /usr/bin/path all the options are passed through 'ls' so more extravagent combinations could be produced, most useful is 'path -l name', but you probably get the idea. And yes I know that "ls -l `path path`" would work as well, just not as convienently or allow changing options along the line. The thing I liked about the one script was to specify the path, BUT since everything that is an option, is blindly passed to ls for simplicity, anybody have a good suggestion on the best way to handle this ?? Hope I haven't started wars here, or put us on a which path. Appreciate the Response. Mark Keating - markk@censor