Re: 'whence' question

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/06/2014 01:53 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> A "regular glob" and a pattern aren't significantly different, but for
> example you can't use (most) glob qualifiers in a pattern, and the meaning
> of "/" is very different.  Note that "whence" is not a file search tool;
> scanning a hash table of alias names with a glob comparing file type or
> modification time would make no sense.
Quite so.  I'm limiting my thinking to files.
> Interesting, it worked very nicely for me even as far back as zsh-4.2.6 on
> an ancient virtual machine:
>
> % whence -vsa ${(k)commands[(I)zsh*]}
Ooops, I thought I had to replace 'commands' with (in this case) 'zsh*'.
... works fine Bart. (But really, shouldn't it be a bit simpler?).

   $ whence -vsa ${(k)commands[(I)zsh*]}

   zsh is /usr/local/bin/zsh -> /usr/local/bin/zsh-test2-orig-rebuild
   zsh is /usr/bin/zsh -> /usr/local/bin/zsh-test2-orig-rebuild
   zsh is /bin/zsh -> /usr/local/bin/zsh-test2-orig-rebuild
   zsh-ok is /usr/local/bin/zsh-ok
   zsh-test1 is /usr/local/bin/zsh-test1
   zsh-test2-orig-rebuild is /usr/local/bin/zsh-test2-orig-rebuild