Re: problem with egrep and fgrep

[Aharon Robbins]

In article <mailman.2614.1095105282.1998.bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org> you write:
>If you can tolerate extensions then 'command -v' or 'type' or 'whence'
>are possibilities.  But none are completely portable.  None are POSIX
>standard.

Both `type' and `command -v' are part of the current POSIX standard.
That doesn't help for older systems, of where there are still plenty.

Arnold
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