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Re: which command fails


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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