[Discussion] Which

[Dave Yeo]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:55:51 -0600, Chuck McKinnis wrote:

>
>Dave Yeo wrote:
>> Does eCS come with which.exe installed?
>> Dave
>
>No but a much better utility is findpath.exe from the old free portion 
>of the FM/2 package.
>
>FINDPATH.EXE  compiled Sep  1 1995  01:50:09
>   Usage:    FINDPATH <environment_variable_name> [filename]
>  Examples:  FINDPATH PATH AFILE.EXE (Find AFILE.EXE on PATH)
>             FINDPATH DPATH *.DOC (Find all *.DOC files on DPATH)
>             FINDPATH LIBPATH (List LIBPATH directories)
>
>It lists the found items in the order in which they were found.

Thanks, just trying to debug a Java app which hangs running which.exe
here looking for a browser.
Which.exe
(http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/disk/which-2.1.5_os2.zip) is
actually much better then findpath IMO.
Usage:  which.exe [options] [cmd ... ]

Options:
    (default behavior is to find location of program executed as "cmd")
    -1  show the first match from all cmd args; display nothing if not
found
    -a  list all matches (With -1, list all first matches of cmd args)
    -b  search directories in BOOKSHELF for book (.inf and .pdf) files
    -d  search directories in DPATH for data files
    -e  search directories in a given env var; Example: -e EPMPATH
    -h  search directories in HELP for help (.hlp) files
    -l  search directories in LIBPATH (BEGIN/ENDLIBPATH) for DLLs,
LIBs, As
    -i  search directories in C_INCLUDE_PATH for header (.h) files
    -j  search directories in INCLUDE for header (.h) files
    -q  quiet mode (only returns error code without onscreen messages)
    -s  show file date/time and size
    -u  revert to OS/2 style '\' dir separator (default is now Unix
style '/')

Dave

   cmd  name to be searched (wildcards can be used)

Examples:  which.exe -las emx*
           which.exe -las foo*.bar  (override the default extension)