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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to get the pathname of the current executable?
Message-ID: <1747@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Feb 90 21:02:41 GMT
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In article <5378@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
> someone please tell me why which(1) reads the .cshrc...

If you're asking "why does which(1) assume I use csh", then:

Different shells potentially interpret commands in completely different
ways.  A command like which *has* to depend on your shell.  It seems clear
to me that which should be built-in to csh and sh - that way it would
always be right.

-- Richard
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