Re^2: Searching for Sendmail

Maybe 'which' would be better. It does have a cpan module http://search.cpan.org/~pereinar/File-Which-0.05/Which.pm

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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]