NAME¶
whiff - like which, but finds the first of all the given alternatives
USAGE¶
whiff <command ... >
DESCRIPTION¶
which is a useful utility, found on most unix systems. It gives you the
absolute path for the first occurance of a program in your path.
Unfortunately, it does two stupid things: first, if it can't find one, it
prints an error message to stdout; secondly, if you give it multiple
arguments, it assumes you want one line per argument, each like calling which
individually.
whiff assumes that all the arguments form a best-first list of
alternatives, and only prints the path to the first alternative found in the
path. If none is found, it prints an error (to stderr!) and exits with an
error code.
BUGS¶
Please report any bugs or feature requests through the web interface at
<
http://rt.cpan.org>. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically
be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright 2008, Ricardo SIGNES. This program is free software; you can
redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.