| Eickmeyer | OvenWerks: You should be able to test for the location of a command in $PATH using "command -v". Don't use 'which', it's being depricated. | 19:25 |
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| OvenWerks | Eickmeyer: I was already assuming python has a better way to do this :) | 19:29 |
| Eickmeyer | Oh, yeah, I don't know about that, but I know you can query python for the output of a command. | 19:32 |
| OvenWerks | Eickmeyer: you will never guess what the python method is... shutil.which() | 19:32 |
| Eickmeyer | LMAO That's hilarious. | 19:32 |
| OvenWerks | Long Live Which | 19:32 |
| OvenWerks | :) | 19:32 |
| Eickmeyer | Yeah, but I doubt it's using the actual "which" command as a backend. | 19:33 |
| OvenWerks | why people would depricate something simple like which to something no one has heard of sounds dumb. | 19:33 |
| OvenWerks | command should be changed so that if parameter 0 is which it acts that way. | 19:35 |
| OvenWerks | (ie. a link called which that points to command should just work... otherwise bug | 19:35 |
| OvenWerks | basic unix commands should always continue to work | 19:37 |
| Eickmeyer | Right, not sure why it's depricated, but probably because it was duplicating the work of "command -v". | 19:41 |
| OvenWerks | except any book that teaches unix commands teaches which | 19:42 |
| Eickmeyer | Yeah, again, I have no idea why, but remember, GNU's Not Unix (tm). | 19:43 |
| OvenWerks | no but gnu has created almost all the commandline tools unix depends on. The gnu commandline tools are effectively the standard commandline tools. | 19:44 |
| Eickmeyer | I mean, I agree, but which in 22.04 was giving the error that it was being depricated in favor of "command -v". The release team reverted that for now since it's an LTS and nobody wants that going bad yet. | 19:46 |
| OvenWerks | command is a part of bash it seems. | 19:48 |
| OvenWerks | does sh include command as well? seems to... except I think our sh->bash :P | 19:49 |
| OvenWerks | one wonders about ash and csh too. | 19:50 |
| OvenWerks | or for that matter any shell script that is not run from bash. | 19:51 |
| Eickmeyer | Yeah, no clue. I just know it was saying "This version of which is depricated. Use 'command -v' instead in scripts." | 20:00 |
| OvenWerks | Anyway, python has which ;) | 20:12 |
| Eickmeyer | :) | 20:14 |
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