Re: feature-request: brief syntax for $(type -p somecommand)

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Mike Coleman wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Chris F.A. Johnson <cfaj@freeshell.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Mike Coleman wrote:
> >
> > > [Oops--I sent that incomplete.]
> > >
> > > It would be nice if there was some really brief syntax for
> > >
> > >   $(type -p somecommand)
> > >
> > > I find myself using this all day long with 'ls', 'file', 'ldd',
> > > 'strings', 'nm', etc., and the current incantation is just long enough
> > > to be annoying.
> >
> >   Use a function, e.g.:
> >
> > p()
> > {
> >  pp=$( type -p "$@" )
> > }
>
>
> Hmm.  So I would use this like so?
>
>    $ p somecommand; ls -l $pp

   If that's what you want, you can include it in the function:

p()
{
  _p=$( type -p "$@" )
  [ -n "$_p" ] && ls -l $_p
}

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