https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789114 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789114#c1 Michal Vyskocil changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mvyskocil@suse.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-java@forge.provo.n |puzel@suse.com |ovell.com | --- Comment #1 from Michal Vyskocil 2012-11-15 15:14:45 UTC --- It might be good idea to add a switch to which to perform the readlink(). Petr, what do you think? @Tony, if you - for some reason - want to know a full path to a command readlink -f $(which java) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789114 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789114#c3 Petr Uzel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P4 - Low Status|NEW |ASSIGNED Severity|Normal |Minor --- Comment #3 from Petr Uzel 2012-11-19 09:52:44 UTC --- (In reply to comment #1)

It might be good idea to add a switch to which to perform the readlink(). Petr, what do you think?

canonicalize_file_name(3) will be better I guess. I'll cook up a patch and send it to upstream when time permits. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789114 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789114#c5 Carlo Wood changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |carlo@alinoe.com --- Comment #5 from Carlo Wood 2012-11-27 16:07:02 UTC --- Upstream here... The intended use of 'which' is to report which path will be used by bash when a command is entered on the command line (or used in a bash script). Imho, if you type 'which xyz' you should get a reply being /some/path/xyz', where the patterns 'xyz' always matches. I understand the need for the requested feature here, but I see no reason not to use UNIX the way was intended and construct a command that returns what you want instead of adding duplicated functionality to this particular utility. As far as I understand it, readlink -f *does* what you want. For example, I get (on my debian box):

which java /usr/bin/java

readlink -f $(which java) /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java

Where /usr/bin/java -> /etc/alternatives/java -> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java As no other 'which' supports --resolv-path I think I'd be doing the community a disfavour by motivating them to write non-portable (non POSIX) scripts with a GNU extension that isn't really needed. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789114 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=789114#c7 --- Comment #7 from Tony Su 2012-11-28 15:57:44 UTC --- Agreed. Will just have to educate the populace (myself included). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.