Re: Searching for Sendmail

perl -e 'print `whereis sendmail`;'

Of course I was looking on CPAN first but there seems to be no File::WhereIs or the like.

holli

When you're up to your ass in alligators, it's difficult to remember that your original purpose was to drain the swamp.

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Re^2: Searching for Sendmail by cosmicperl (Chaplain) on Feb 16, 2009 at 11:35 UTC
Maybe 'which' would be better. It does have a cpan module http://search.cpan.org/~pereinar/File-Which-0.05/Which.pm	[reply]
Re^3: Searching for Sendmail by tirwhan (Abbot) on Feb 16, 2009 at 12:08 UTC
"`which`" (and, according to the perldoc, File::Which) will only look in directories in your $PATH, whereas "`whereis`" will also find binaries which are not in your path. All dogma is stupid.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Searching for Sendmail by cosmicperl (Chaplain) on Feb 16, 2009 at 13:45 UTC
Good point, which is pretty useless if you are just running the command and the shell will check the path anyway. It's pretty tempting to write a File::whereis Lyle	[reply]
Re^2: Searching for Sendmail by cosmicperl (Chaplain) on Feb 16, 2009 at 13:49 UTC
But more importantly. We still have the problem of detecting which of the returned list is actually working. They may have several copies or Sendmail or Qmail installed and only one working. Lyle	[reply]