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Re: which command fails
- From: Sylvain Petreolle <spetreolle at yahoo dot fr>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:00:46 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: which command fails
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
correct syntax of which is "which ls", remember that the goal of which
is to show the path of the command you give as a parameter.
see "man which".
--- J S <vervoom@hotmail.com> a écrit : > Hi,
>
> Since I upgraded cygwin I can't use the which command. It keeps
> saying:
>
> $ which /usr/bin/ls
> /usr/bin/ls: Command not found.
>
>
> My path appears to be OK:
>
> $ echo $PATH
>
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:.:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/wmaker/bin:/cygdriv
>
e/c/WINNT/system32:/cygdrive/c/WINNT:/cygdrive/c/WINNT/System32/Wbem:/cygdrive/c/ora8i/bin:/cygdrive
> /c/Program
>
Files/Oracle/jre/1.1.7/bin:/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/E!PC:/cygdrive/c/ACE/rdbms32/bin:/cygdriv
> e/c/Program Files/Attachmate/E!E2K/:/cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/ULTRAE~1
>
> The which also looks OK, and is the same as the which in the old
> cygwin I
> had:
>
> $ which
> usage: which [-a] command...
>
> $ ls -l which
> -rwx------ 1 544 10513 4608 Nov 15 2001 which
>
>
> Any ideas what could be going wrong?
>
> JS.
>
>
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