On Thursday 29 November 2001 00:24, Alexandr Malusek wrote:

Jon Clausen writes:

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So is there any potential breakage by removing that alias (scripts expecting 'which' to behave like /usr/bin/which, but getting the output of 'type -p' or vice versa)?

In general no, see bash(1): Aliases are not expanded when the shell is not interac­ tive, unless the expand_aliases shell option is set using shopt ...

It means that "which" in a script like

#!/bin/bash which ls alias

is interpreted as /usr/bin/which because there are no aliases defined in the shell.

kewl! Thanks :) Jon Clausen