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Not sure why the outcome of "`which` is not POSIX" would be "essentially everybody should stop using `which` and start using `command -v`, which is poorly known, has different semantics, and is covered in relatively little introductory material" rather than "this is just another example of why POSIX has been nearly irrelevant for a long time now". systemd is not POSIX, either, but that's not taken as some justificati…
Unless you doing alternative micro meta alpine docker images, this has no importance whatsoever.
Yeah, no thanks, I'm going to keep using `which`, and distributions are going to support it, no matter how "standard" `command -v` is. The only reason we're talking about this is that it's so noteworthy that any distro would seriously suggest people avoid `which`, which is the de facto standard.
let's collectively mark POSIX as deprecated and move on
Not sure why the outcome of "`which` is not POSIX" would be "essentially everybody should stop using `which` and start using `command -v`, which is poorly known, has different semantics, and is covered in relatively little introductory material" rather than "this is just another example of why POSIX has been nearly irrelevant for a long time now". systemd is not POSIX, either, but that's not taken as some justificati…
As for systemd, AFAIK system startup isn't covered by POSIX at all, so bsd init, sysv init and systemd are all equally not covered by POSIX. Which is fine, POSIX was never meant to cover every single behavior of an OS, but rather a sort of least common denominator to make porting easier (not "make porting non-existent").
Not sure why the outcome of "`which` is not POSIX" would be "essentially everybody should stop using `which` and start using `command -v`, which is poorly known, has different semantics, and is covered in relatively little introductory material" rather than "this is just another example of why POSIX has been nearly irrelevant for a long time now". systemd is not POSIX, either, but that's not taken as some justificati…
Yeah, no thanks, I'm going to keep using `which`, and distributions are going to support it, no matter how "standard" `command -v` is. The only reason we're talking about this is that it's so noteworthy that any distro would seriously suggest people avoid `which`, which is the de facto standard.
There are enough dists which don't support which.
#!/bin/bash
type -pa "$@" | head -n 1 ; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]}
https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/which...
let's collectively mark POSIX as deprecated and move on
It's better to create a «PWG» (POSIX Working Group), which then publish POSIX2021, POSIX2026, and so on.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Group
* https://www.opengroup.org/austin/
* https://www.austingroupbugs.net/main_page.php
* https://www.mail-archive.com/austin-group-l@opengroup.org/ma...
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