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From: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to get the pathname of the current executable?
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Date: 14 Feb 90 03:52:59 GMT
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In-reply-to: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)

>>>			       (someone please tell me
>>>why which(1) reads the .cshrc...)
>>
>>Because which(1) is a csh script.

>The question is: Why does which run without the -f option, which would
>cause it *not* to read .cshrc?

The question is why people post without spending a couple of minutes
reading the script file.

It DOES use the -f option on start-up.
It DOES explicitly source the .cshrc file.

Use the source, Luke!

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Bruce G. Barnett	<barnett@crd.ge.com>   uunet!crdgw1!barnett