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Re: [Nmh-workers] Getting the location of the of the nmh executables fro
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hymie |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] Getting the location of the of the nmh executables from a script |
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Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:54:29 -0500 |
It probably depends on your shell. But most shells should have the "which"
builtin
$ which scan
/usr/local/nmh/bin/scan
If you want to be super portable, there's probably a way to separate
the PATH variable using : as your delimeter and check echo entry
for $dir/scan ... but I can't get the splitting-up part to happen
off the top of my head.
--hymie! http://lactose.homelinux.net/~hymie address@hidden
address@hidden writes:
>How, from a script, can I get the location of the nmh executables. I don't
>mean the location of the "fancy" executables that `mhparam libexecdir`
>gets me, but the location of the "user" executables, like scan.
>Yes, I know, it will be in $PATH, but I want to make sure that I get
>the right component of $PATH.
>
> Norman Shapiro