Re: [Nmh-workers] Getting the location of the of the nmh executables from a script

[norm]

Neither 'command -v scan' nor 'which scan' works for me. I want to name the
script, from which I want to know where nmh's scan is located. "scan". I want
to know its location so I can invoke it. Of course, I know its location today,
/usr/local/nmh/bin/scan. But I would prefer something more robust. Again, I
could search, $PATH for a component containing "/nmh.", but how do I know that
in the future there won't be more than one such component, or that in the
future there will be any such component? All that depends on how I will
configure nmh in the future.

Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> writes:
>Hi Norm,
>
>> How, from a script, can I get the location of the nmh executables.
>
>Depends on the shell.  Try
>
>$ command -v inc
>/usr/bin/mh/inc
>$
>
>If there's a shell function called `inc' though then it may describe
>that.
>
>> the location of the "user" executables, like scan.
>
>Why do you need to know?
>
>Cheers, Ralph.
>
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    Norman Shapiro