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Re: symlink chain.
On Fri, 02 Jan 2015 13:53:48 -0800
Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Another little gotcha:
>
> $ whence -s /usr/bin/zsh
> /usr/bin/zsh -> /usr/local/bin/zsh-5.0.7-165-g2194da1
>
> $ whence -sa /usr/bin/zsh
> (nothing)
>
>
> ... why would the '-a' switch kill the '-s' switch?
It's nothing to do with "-s", it's the "-a". It searches the path for
all occurrences. It still searches even if there's already a full
path. This isn't a hell of a lot of use.
diff --git a/Src/builtin.c b/Src/builtin.c
index 47d1aa0..ebc0654 100644
--- a/Src/builtin.c
+++ b/Src/builtin.c
@@ -3315,7 +3315,7 @@ bin_whence(char *nam, char **argv, Options ops, int func)
/* Option -a is to search the entire path, *
* rather than just looking for one match. */
- if (all) {
+ if (all && **argv != '/') {
char **pp, *buf;
pushheap();
pws
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