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Re: symlink chain.



On 01/03/2015 12:02 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
On Jan 3,  9:14am, Ray Andrews wrote:
}
} Whence is a wrench.  Wrenches should not be hard to understand and they
} shouldn't have any gotchas.

Whence is a pocketknife that you seem to want to be a Leatherman tool.

If you want the wrench analogy, wrenches fit on nuts, and nuts of a
particular shape.  The shape of nut that whence fits on is a single
word that might be a key in one of the command-related hash tables.
A full file path is not that kind of nut.  YOU are making whence hard
to understand by trying to feed it things it wasn't designed to accept.

Well sir, you've made up your mind on that, so I won't flog the subject further, but to say that if:

     $ whence /usr/bin/zsh

... did *not* work, I'd have an easier time accepting your view. But since it *does* work, I stick to my guns that

     $ whence -m /usr/bin/zsh

... should work as well. IMHO the -m should just quietly undertand that it has nothing to do in that case and bow out gracefully. Anyway, it's not going to happen. Conversely, the man page could explain that -m and -a are incompatible with full path filenames, but that's not going to happen either.




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